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ANNALS, REGULATIONS, AND ROSTER 



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Secretary and Adjutant's Office 
March 12, 1895 



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Copyright, 1895, 
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The Society of the War of 1812, 

Instituted, January 3, 1826, 

BY 

Officers of the Armies and Navies of the United 
States in the War of 181 2, 

AND 

Consolidated, January S, 1848, 

WITH 

The Veteran Corps of Artillery, 

in the state of new york, 
Instituted, November 25, 1790, 

BY 

Officers and Soldiers of the War of the Revolution, 

And called into the Military Service of the 
United States in 1812 and 1814. 



Incorporated, January 8, 1892, as a Military Institution, under 
the laws of the State of New York, by the surviving Veteran 
Original Members. 

Incorporation amended by Act of Legislature, March 9, 1895. 



ANNALS. 



On January 3, 1826, pursuant to notice published in 
the newspapers of the City of New York of December 
31, 1825, a number of commissioned officers and ex- 
officers, who resided or were stationed in the vicinity, 
and who had served with reputation in the Army of 
the United States in the War of 18 12, met at the 
Broadway House, corner of Broadway and Grand 
Streets, " to take into consideration the expediency of 
presenting a respectful petition to Congress, praying 
for a grant of public lands, agreeable to rank and 
former practice, as a reward for their services, suf- 
ferings, and losses during the Second War of Inde- 
pendence. 

Major George Howard, formerly ist Regiment, U. S. 
Infantry, was called to the Chair ; Captain Mordecai 
Myers, formerly 13th Regiment, U. S. Infantry, was 
chosen Secretary, and Major Clarkson Crolius, for- 
merly 27th Regiment, U. S. Infantry, was appointed 
Treasurer. The meeting then, after due consideration, 
unanimously resolved that it was expedient to present 
to Congress a respectful memorial, praying for lands 
as a reward for past services. 

A committee was, thereupon, appointed to draft 
and forward the memorial as called for by the action 
of the meeting. 



This committee consisted of Brigadier General, the 
Honorable Robert Bogardus, formerly Colonel 41st 
Regiment, U. S. Infantry ; Captain Mangle Minthorne 
Quackenboss, late 8th Regiment, U. S. Infantry, 
together with Majors Howard and Crolius and Captain 
Myers. 

The committee met on January 8, 1826, the anni- 
versary of the battle of New Orleans, at the residence 
of Captain Myers, No. 45 Mercer Street, in the City 
of New York, and prepared the memorial to which 
Colonel Joseph Watson, formerly District Paymaster 
U. S. A., Colonel Joseph Lee Smith, late 3d Regiment, 
U. S. Infantry, Colonel Gilbert Christian Russell, for- 
merly 20th Regiment, U. S. Infantry, and Colonel 
James R. Mullany, formerly 32d Regiment, U. S. 
Infantry, and then Quartermaster General U. S. A., 
who had been added to the committee after the meet- 
ing, also affixed their signatures. 

In this memorial the committee declared that they 
had "in vain sought for reasons which should deprive 
the officers of the Second War of Independence of 
the same munificence which was extended by the 
United States and by several of the States to those 
of the first. They held the same stake, they exhibited 
the same valor and love of liberty, and, although they 
may not as a body have suffered as much, yet their 
zeal was not less, nor their exertions less willing. ..." 

" If the soldiers oi the late war, and the /wirs of volun- 
teers who were killed or died, had claims on the bounty 
of the nation, why have not the officers, whose skill 
and industry, by daily toil and sleepless nights, brought 
them into the field and drilled them into efficiency } " 



A second meeting was held by this committee on 
February 26, 1826, at the residence of Major CroHus, 
No. 10 Cross (now Park) Street, in the City of New 
York, when report was made of the presentation of 
the memorial to Congress. 

On September 15, 1826, the Association of officers 
re-convened at the Shakspeare Tavern on the southwest 
corner of Nassau and Fulton Streets to hear the final 
report of their committee on the memorial. 

Having concluded this business, they decided that 
their organization should be perpetuated, and consti- 
tute a Military Society. 

Permanent officers were accordingly chosen, and it 
v/as unanimously resolved " that from and after the 
first day of October ensuing, the officers of the late 
Army will meet at the Shakspeare Tavern, corner of 
Nassau and Fulton Streets, on the first Monday in 
every month, at 8 o'clock p.m." 

At this meeting were present a number of com- 
missioned officers who had, during the War of 18 12, 
belonged, when in the military service of the United 
States, to regiments of v^olunteers or militia. 

During the nine years following, the meetings of 
the Society were held at the Shakspeare Tavern, and 
afterward at the residences of the members. 

At first these meetings were held monthly from 
October to April, inclusive, the January meeting being 
designated " the annual meeting," and always held on 
January 8. 

After 1832, in consequence of the decease of many 
valued officers and inability of others to attend, by 



reason of physical infirmities or removals to a distance, 
the number of meetings was reduced to four, viz. : 
October 5 {Battle of the Thames); January 8; February 
18 {Prochmiation of Peace'); and April 2^ {Capture of 
York, Upper Canaiia). 

After 1840, only annual meetings were held, and on 
January 8, 1848, the Military Society of the War of 
18 12 consolidated with "The Veteran Corps of Artil- 
lery," in which many of its members were already 
enrolled, and was afterward generally known by the 
latter title. 

This Corps had been formed, as an independent mili- 
tary organization, on Evacuation Day, November 25, 
1790, by a number of ex-officers and soldiers of the 
Continental and State troops in the War of the Revo- 
lution, who met, for that purpose, at the City Arms 
Tavern, corner of Broadway and Thames Street, in the 
City of New York. 

Subsequently Congress, on May 8, 1792, in "an act 
more effectually to provide for the national defence, by 
establishing an uniform militia throughout the United 
States," declared that : 

'•//%^/va.ysundry Corps of Artillery . . . now exist in several 
of the said States, which, by the laws, customs, or usages 
thereof, have not been incorporated with, or subject to, the 
General Regulations of the Militia: Be it further enact edA\\-^i\. 
such Corps retain their accustomed privileges, subject, never- 
theless, to all other duties required by this Act in like manner 
with the other militia." 

The exemption and privileges constitutionally con- 
ferred by this law were recognized by the Legislature 



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of the State of New York in an act to organize its 
militia, passed March 9, 1793. 

The Act of Congress itself was re-enacted by that 
body on June 22, 1874, as Section Sixteen Hundred and 
Forty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, 
thus again confirming the prescriptive privileges of the 
Corps. 

At first, and for a number of years after its formation, 
the Corps merely paraded on Independence Day, in 
uniform with side arms, until the unprovoked attack, in 
1807, off Hampton Roads, of the British Ship of the 
Line Leopard, upon the American frigate Chesapeake. 

In the preparations then made for apprehended war, 
the Corps applied for and received from the State of 
New York two brass, twelve-pounder guns, which were 
kept at the State Arsenal, corner of White and Elm 
Streets, near the Collect, and were used by the Corps 
in drills, parades, and escort duty, and for national 
salutes. 

On April 13, 1808, the Corps was present at the lay- 
ing of the corner-stone of the Tomb on Hudson Avenue, 
near York Street, Brooklyn, intended for the Martyrs of 
the British Prison Ships in the War of the Revolution, 
whose remains had been collected from the shores of 
the Wallabout, and, on May 26, 1808, the Corps assisted 
in the funeral ceremonies when the remains were deposi- 
ted in the completed tomb. 

The British Government having continued, with con- 
stantly increasing severity, its hostile aggressions against 



the territorial rights and commerce of the United States 
in violation of the Law of Nations, and in disregard of 
the most earnest remonstrances of the United States, 
the Members of the Corps, as an evidence of their patri- 
otism, on October 19, 1809, subscribed a declaration 
" pledging themselves to bear arms and take the field 
in the city and county of New York, or the counties of 
Kings, Richmond, and Westchester, in the State of New 
York, whenever the same or any part thereof may be or 
is likely to be invaded." 

On November 6, 1809, His Excellency, Daniel D. 
Tompkins, Governor of the State of New York, in rec- 
ognition of the status of the Corps as an independent 
military organization, formally commissioned all its Offi- 
cers by Brevet. 

In the chronicle of its celebration of July 4, 18 10, 
it is recorded that "the Corps of Veteran Artillery 
Volunteers, consisting of soldiers of the Revolution 
from forty-five upwards, commanded by Captain John 
McLean, turned out in honor of a Day dear to every 
American heart, and especially so to those who fought 
and bled to achieve the invaluable blessings we now 

enjoy." 

"They met in the Park at nine o'clock, fired a salute 
from their brass twelves of seventeen guns at the com- 
mencement of the march of the Societies, then fell into 
the rear of the procession and marched to the Church, 
and returned to the Park and dismissed until four 
o'clock, when they sat down to a dinner at Mr. James 
Mitchell's Tavern in Cherry Street, after which the 



usual toasts were drank, accompanied by a gun each, 
and cheers occasionally, interspersed with song and 
sentiment, and attended by that hilarity and joy which 
the company and occasion were so well calculated to 
inspire." 

On June 19, 18 12, the President of the United States, 
James Madison, promulgated the Act of Congress of 
the preceding day, which declared war to exist between 
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 
and the dependencies thereof, and the United States of 
America and their territories, and, on the following day, 
the fact was announced in General Orders by the Com- 
manding General of the United States forces in the 
City of New York. 

On June 22, 181 2, Commandant McLean, of the Vet- 
eran Corps of Artillery, ordered the Corps to assemble, 
in uniform with side arms, at the Arsenal, on the 25th 
instant, to proceed and take post at the North Battery, 
foot of Hubert Street, Hudson River, in the City of 
New York, until a regular garrison could replace 
them. 

In this order the Commandant called attention to the 
fact that it was at the North Battery where the first shot 
was received from H.B.M. ship Asia at the commence- 
ment of the War of the Revolution, and added : 

" I trust you will show by your punctuality and prompt 
attendance that the flame of Seventy-six is not entirely 
extinguished by the frost of time." 

This patriotic duty was performed by the Corps, at 
its own charge, for several days until regularly relieved. 

It was the first organization in the State of New York 
to volunteer for military service after the declaration of 
war. 



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On July 4, 1812, the Corps fired a national salute at 
the Arsenal at 1 1 o'clock a.m., and then escorted a 
number of civic societies to the First Baptist Church in 
Gold Street, for the usual services of the Day. 

On August 14, 18 1 2, the ist Brigade New York State 
Militia Artillery had target practice at the Battery, foot 
of Whitehall Street in the City of New York, and at 
Castle Williams on Governor's Island, with field and 
siege guns, against the hulk of a brig anchored at a 
distance of one thousand yards. 

The Veteran Corps of Artillery, having been invited 
to assist, took post on the Battery and repeatedly struck 
the target with shots from a "long nine." 

On November 25, 18 12, the Corps fired a national 
salute at the Battery at noon, at which time salutes were 
also fired by all the forts in New York Harbor. 

A regiment of artillery and infantry from the Hudson 
River counties, which had just completed a three months' 
tour of duty in the United States service, together with 
the uniformed militia of the City of New York and the 
Veteran Corps of Artillery, paraded and were reviewed 
by the Governor of the State of New York and by the 
Commanding General 3d U. S. Military District. 

The Corps then proceeded to Philip Becanon's res- 
taurant, No. 19 Park Row, where they dined together 
and drank thirteen toasts. 

In the next year, for the celebration of Independence 
Day, the Commandant of the Corps issued the following 
orders : 



"Veteran Corps of Artillery, 

"New York, June 30, 1 813. 
" Orders : 

" The Veteran Corps of Artillery are hereby requested to 

assemble in complete uniform at the Arsenal in Elm Street, at 

ID o'clock A.M., on the 5th of July next, to commemorate with 

their brethren in arms the Birth-day of American Independence. 

" And they are likewise requested to appear with badges of 

mourning on their swords as a tribute of respectful sorrow for 

our departed young heroes, Pike and Lawrence, who gloriously 

fell maintaining their Country's rights. 

" By Order of 

" Captain John McLean, Cojumandant : 

"Isaac Keeler, 

" Adjutant:' 

The duties of the day inckided a national salute by 
the Corps, a parade as escort to civic societies, and the 
usual church service at the Irish Presbyterian Church 
in Orange Street, near Grand, with address and read- 
ing of the Declaration of Independence, followed by 
the annual dinner and reunion. 

On September 16, 18 13, during the funeral services 
at Trinity Church over the remains of the gallant 
Captain James Lawrence, U. S. Navy, who had been 
mortally wounded in action off Boston Harbor, June i, 
1 81 3, the Corps fired minute guns at the Battery. 

On November i, 18 13, Brigadier General Jacob 
Morton, commanding the ist Brigade, New York 
State Artillery, in Brigade Orders from his Head- 
quarters in the City of New York, directed his brig- 
ade, to which, for such purpose, the Veteran Corps 
of Artillery was voluntarily attached, to parade at the 
Battery on November 3, 1813, for review by Major 
General Henry Dearborn, General-in-Chief U. S. Army, 
and for target practice with twelve-pounder guns. 



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The brigade having been reviewed at eleven o'clock, 
began firing at noon at an unseaworthy vessel of sixty 
tons, which had been anchored at a distance of one 
thousand yards, and which was soon sunk. 

In the next day's chronicle of the event it is stated 
that " Justice requires us to notice the excellent firing 
of the Veteran Corps, commanded by Captain Chap- 
man, which did much execution." 

The General-in-Chief, in Orders, commented as 
follows : 

" Major General Dearborn has the pleasure to announce to 
Brigadier General Morton, of the First Brigade of New York 
State Artillery, the high satisfaction he experienced in the 
review of his brigade. 

" Their appearance was every way military, and their firing 
at the target would do honor to the oldest artillerists. 

" He observed with peculiar pleasure the Corps of Veterans 
who, at an advanced period of life, evince a determination to 
be first in the defence of their Country and its rights. 

"Army Headquarters, 

"New York, November 3, 1813." 

For the celebration of Evacuation Day, November 
25, 18 1 3, the record states that : 

" The Independent Veteran Corps of Artillery assembled 
at the Arsenal in Elm Street in the morning, and, after per- 
forming the duties of the Day, adjourned to Kent's Hotel 
(now Fraunce's Tavern) and partook of a dinner with usual 
toasts. 

" Volunteer toasts were given by Captain Chapman, Cap- 
tain-Lieutenant Richard Nixon, Lieutenant Isaac Keeler, and 
Orderly Sergeant Asa Hall." 

On June 26, 18 14, official intelligence was received 
that, in consequence of the success of the Allied 
Powers in their operations against the Emperor of 



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the French, and his abdication on April 7, 18 14, a 
large detachment had been made from the veteran 
British Army, which had served in the Peninsular 
Campaigns under the Duke of Wellington, for ser- 
vice against the United States. 

Long Island Sound was then occupied by a British 
Squadron, while the port of New York was blockaded 
by a powerful fleet. 

In anticipation of speedy invasion, the defences of 
New York Harbor were strengthened, all classes of 
citizens, civic associations, and military organizations 
assisting. 

On July 4, 1 8 14, the Corps assembled at the Arsenal 
at 3 o'clock A.M., and, at sunrise, waited on His Excel- 
lency Daniel D. Tompkins, Governor of the State 
of New York, with the compliments of the Day, and 
fired a national salute in front of his temporary head- 
quarters. 

Having returned to the Arsenal and been dismissed, 
they reassembled at 9 o'clock a.m. and marched to their 
Commandant's residence. No. 309 Washington Street, 
where the Corps was presented with the National Colors, 
after which, having returned to the Arsenal and fired a 
national salute, the Corps escorted the civic procession 
to the new theatre in Anthony Street, to hear an address 
and the Declaration of Independence. 

Later in the day the members dined together as usual, 
with patriotic and commemorative toasts. 

On August II, 1814, the Veteran Corps of Artillery 
crossed the East River to Brooklyn, and, with pick and 



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shovel, worked on the entrenchments of Fort Greene, 
which formed a part of the line of defence from Gow- 
anus Creek to the Wallabout. 

On August 29, 18 14, Governor Tompkins, in General 
Orders from his Headquarters in the City of New York, 
called for vohmteers, and also earnestly requested all 
Corps, who were disposed to offer their services in 
defence of the Country at that moment of danger, to 
report for duty. 

He also ordered into the military service of the 
United States a large detachment from the organized 
militia. 

Pursuant to the Governor's urgent request, volunteers 
from all the counties on and near Hudson River, as far 
north as Albany County, hastened to form themselves 
into companies, and as fast as they arrived in the City 
of New York, they were organized by the Governor 
into regiments. 

The Veteran Corps of Artillery, then composed 
exclusively of those who had served in the War of 
the Revolution, promptly tendered their services, and 
were accepted and mustered into the military service 
of the United States on September 2, 18 14, and at- 
tached, for the campaign, to the 3d Regiment New York 
State Artillery, now the 8th Battalion, Infantry, New 
York State National Guard. 

Their duty was performed in the defences of New 
York Harbor, and, on November 25, 18 14, the Corps 
was reviewed by Governor Tompkins, as Commander 
of the Third Military District of the United States. 

This Third Military District, to which President 
Madison had assigned Governor Tompkins as Com- 



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mander on October 14, 18 14, comprised the State of 
New York from the sea to the Highlands of the Hud- 
son, including West Point, and all of the State of New 
Jersey, except the Delaware River counties. 

The Governor held the command, under the Presi- 
dent's orders, from October 28, 18 14, until December 
26, 18 14, with the rank, for the time being, of Major- 
General, pursuant to the resolve of the Continental 
Congress of August 25, 1780. 

The capture of the British Squadron on Lake Cham- 
plain, and defeat- at Plattsburg and retreat of the invad- 
ing veteran British Army under Lieutenant-General Sir 
Georo-e Prevost, together with the diversion to Louisiana, 
from the Chesapeake, of the second invading British 
Army with their reinforcements from abroad, having 
dissipated all fear of further offensive operations 
against the Northern States, the Veteran Corps of 
Artillery was, pursuant to General Orders of Novem- 
ber 29, 1 8 14, after inspection by Colonel Nicholas 
Gray, Inspector-General, U.S.A., honorably discharged 
from the military service of the United States on 
December 3, 18 14, with the thanks of Governor Tomp- 
kins. 

A detachment of the Corps was, however, kept on 
duty, in United States service, as a Guard at the 
Arsenal, and periodically relieved by another detach- 
ment of the same, until March 2, 18 15, during which 
tour of duty Dr. John H. Steel was assigned by Gov- 
ernor Tompkins, in General Orders, dated Headquarters, 
Albany, January 11, 1815, as attending Surgeon of the 
Corps, and also of the Militia, in United States service, 
on duty in Harlem. 



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On February ii, 1815, the British Sloop of War 
Favorite arrived in New York Harbor with the Treaty 
of Peace concluded at Ghent and ratified by the Prince 
Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland. 

It was received with rejoicings by the citizens of 
New York, and the Veteran Corps fired a national 
salute at the Arsenal. 

For many years, after 1808, the Corps was, at its 
desire, charged with the duty of firing the national 
salute of one gun for every State in the Union on 
Independence Day and Evacuation Day until the 
venerable members became too feeble for artillery 
duty, when they paraded in uniform, with side arms 
only. These salutes were fired at the State Arsenal 
or in the City Hall Park, or at the Battery. 

After the Peace of 18 15, a detail was regularly made, 
in every year, from the Corps, by the Commandant, to 
raise the United States Garrison flag on the staff on 
the Battery, and on the stone Block House near 
McGowan's Pass, Harlem Heights, in Central Park, 
where the staff, still standing, was erected by the 
Corps. 

From that time onward the Corps was recruited 
exclusively from among those who had served as ofifi- 
cers or enlisted men in the Armies, Navies, or Letter 
of Marque service of the United States in the War 
of 1812. 

Most of these had belonged to the volunteer forces 
or organized militia of the State of New York, and 



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had uniformed, armed, and equipped themselves for 
such service at their own expense. 

One by one the honored Revolutionary members, 
of whom sixty-eight had served in the Corps during 
the Second War of Independence, passed away, retain- 
ing their interest in the Corps to the last, and parading 
when able. 

After 1815, the Corps assisted in many public events. 

On the occasion of the funeral ceremonies attending 
the reception from Canada of the remains of Major- 
General Richard Montgomery, killed December 31, 
1775, in the ill-fated assault on Quebec, and their final 
interment on July 8, 18 18, in the chancel of St. 
Paul's Chapel on Broadway, the Veteran Corps of 
Artillery was detailed by Major-General Jacob Morton, 
of the Society of the War of 18 12, commanding the 
New York State Artillery, in Division Orders of July 
6, 18 18, "to fire the signal guns at the Arsenal, and 
minute guns from Fort Richmond at Staten Island." 

On August 16, 1824, the Corps officially assisted in 
receiving Major General, the Marquis de Lafayette, on 
his arrival at Castle Garden, much to his gratification, 
several of the veterans of the Revolution being in 
the ranks. 

On November 26, 1830, Evacuation Day was cele- 
brated and also the then recent Revolution in France, 
by a parade of all the organized militia forces 
and principal civic associations in the City of New 
York and vicinity. On this occasion the duty was 
assigned to the Veteran Corps to fire a national salute 
at sunrise at the Battery. 



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Upon the announcement of the decease at Paris, 
on May 20, 1834, of Major General, the Marquis de 
Lafayette, funeral ceremonies were held in the City 
of New York on June 26, 1834, which were partici- 
pated in by all the military of the city and neighboring 
towns, and by the principal civic associations. 

Officers of the War of the Revolution acted as pall 
bearers, and the Veteran Corps of Artillery fired 
minute guns as the procession moved through Chatham 
Street, Bowery, Broome and Broadway, to the Battery. 

Upon August 14, 1836, Captain-Lieutenant John 
Van Arsdale,^ of the Corps, died at his residence, 134 
De Lancey Street, in the City of New York, in his 
eighty-first year, and was interred the next day in the 
First Street Cemetery, with funeral honors by the 
Corps, assisted by the Napoleon Cadets. 

1 111 the War of the Revolution he served in the New York Con- 
tinental Infantry in the severe winter campaign of 1775 in Canada and 
assault on Quebec, and later in the stubborn, but unsuccessful, defence of 
Fort Montgomery on Hudson or North River, where he was shot in the 
leg and made prisoner of war, October 6, 1777. He was, thereafter, con- 
fined, at different times, in the Sugar House in Liberty Street, and Presby- 
terian Brick Church in Beekman Street in the City of New York, and on 
the prison ship Whitby, until exchanged, July 20, 1778. 

In 1780 he served in the Continental Light Infantry Division under Major 
General, the Marquis de Lafayette, and, when honorably discharged, on De- 
cember 28, 1782, from his last enlistment, was First Sergeant of his Company. 

Upon the Evacuation of the City of New York by the British Army 
under General Sir Guy Carleton, on November 25, 1783, the flag-staff on 
the Battery was left with cleats and halyards cut away and staff greased. 

Mr. Van Arsdale, happening to arrive immediately afterward, found 
means to ascend the staff and fix new halyards, so that the American flag 
was promptly hoisted in view of the retiring forces. 

He joined the Veteran Corps of Artillery, October 6, 1813, and was 
mustered with it into the military service of the United States in 1S14, and 
was elected its First or Captain-Lieutenant, November 25, 1835. 



On October 19, 1836, His Excellency, William 
Learned Marcy, of the Society of the War of 1812, 
Governor of the State of New York, officially inspected 
and reviewed the Veteran Corps in the City of New 
York, as an independent military organization, and, in 
General Orders from Headquarters, Albany, October 
29, 1836, expressed " the high satisfaction afforded him 
in witnessing the discipline, subordination, and patriotic 
spirit" evinced by the Corps, which gave them "an 
enviable standing as citizen soldiers." 

On December 3, 1836, Major General Jacob Morton, 
of the Society of the War of 181 2, died at his resi- 
dence. No. 9 State Street, in the City of New York. 

Brigadier General Henry Arcularius, of the Society 
of the War of 18 12, thereupon issued the following 
Orders : 

"First Division New York State Artillery, 
"New York, December 3, 1836. 

" Division Orders : 

" The melancholy duty devolves upon the Division of pay- 
ing the last solemn honors to Major General Morton, who 
died this day in the seventy-sixth year of his age. 

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"Captain Chapman of the Independent Veteran Corps of 
Heavy Artillery, having volunteered the services of his Corps, 
is requested to fire minute guns at the Battery, during the 
movement of the procession, corresponding in number with 
the age of the deceased. 

" Ammunition will be furnished on application to the Com- 
missary General. 

" By order of 

" Brigadier General Arcularius : 
"Henry H. Elliott, 

" Division Inspector.'''' 



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The Veteran Commandant of the Corps thereupon 
issued the following Orders : 

"Veteran Corps of Artillery, 

"New York, December 5, 1836. 
" Orders : 

" It becomes the Commandant's painful duty to announce to 
the Corps the death of Major General Jacob Morton, the long- 
tried Commander of our Division of Artillery, — a man who to 
the dignity of the office united the politeness of a gentleman, 
and, while we bow with resignation to the all-wise dispensation 
of Providence, we feel it our duty to unite with our younger mil- 
itary brothers in rendering the usual funeral honors accorded 
to departed worth. 

" The Commanding General having assigned to the Veteran 
Corps the honorable duty of firing minute guns during the 
march of the Procession, the Veteran Corps will assemble at 
the Arsenal Yard on Tuesday the 6th of December instant, at 
I o'clock P.M., and take post at the Battery at 2 o'clock p.m. 
" By order of 
" Captain George W. Chapman, Coinmanda7it : 

"Charles Robb, 

" Adjutant:'' 

On the following morning Brigadier General Arcu- 
larius, in Division Orders, directed the " Veteran Corps 
to commence the firing of minute guns as soon as the 
column should be in motion." 

The route of this procession was up Broadway from 
State Street, and through Bond Street to the cemetery 
in Second Street. 

On June 24, 1845, under arrangements of the Com- 
mon Council of the City of New York, funeral cere- 
monies were held in honor of the memory of Major 
General Andrew Jackson, ex-President of the United 
States, then lately deceased. 



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The procession consisted of thirteen divisions, mili- 
tary and civic, and among those who took part were 
the General-in-Chief of the Army of the United States, 
and the Commanding General of the Military District, 
with their respective staffs ; the Commandant of the New 
York Navy Yard ; the Corps of Cadets from the U. S. 
Military Academy at West Point, and detachments of 
regular troops and marines, besides all the organized 
militia of the cities of New York and Brooklyn and 
neighboring towns, together with very many civic asso- 
ciations and the faculties and students of institutions of 
learning. 

Among the pall bearers selected to represent the 
Veteran Corps were the Commandant, Dr. George 
Warren Chapman, and Abraham Dally, Jr., Esq., subse- 
quently Commandant. 

In the published programme it was officially an- 
nounced that " the troops of the United States, sta- 
tioned at the different posts in the harbor, would fire 
minute guns from noon to sunset"; also that "the 
Veteran Corps of Artillery would fire minute guns, 
answering in number to the age of the deceased, com- 
mencing at noon." 

On September lo, 1845, the Corps had to mourn the 
loss of its last Veteran Revolutionary Commandant, Dr. 
George Warren Chapman, who died at his residence, 
93 Canal Street, in the City of New York, in consequence 
of an accidental injury received a few days before. 

He had been a member of the Corps from its organ- 
ization in 1790, and its Commandant continuously from 
October 6, 18 13, and had commanded it when in the 
service of the United States in 18 14. 



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On November 25, 1845, the Corps celebrated Evac- 
uation Day by raising the flag as usual, and by firing 
a national salute at the Battery at sunrise, which 
was answered, gun for gun, from Fort Washington 
Heights. 

Later in the day, John I. Mumford, Esq., a veteran 
member and ex-officer of the War of 1812, delivered an 
address before them. 

On the celebration of Independence Day, July 5, 
1847, the Corps fired a national salute at the Battery 
at sunrise, " with guns originally sent here by George 
III. to protect the Colonies, but which afterward be- 
came American trophies." 

Later in the day public officials, including members 
of Congress and of the State Legislature, and invited 
guests, assembled at the old State Arsenal, in Elm 
Street, and proceeded, under escort of the ist Brigade, 
1st Division New York State Militia, to the present 
Central Park, where, at 4 o'clock p.m., at the corner of 
Fifth Avenue and Sixty-fourth Street, the corner-stone 
of a new State Arsenal was laid with appropriate 
ceremonies. 

The Veteran Corps of Artillery preceded the pro- 
cession to the site, and, at the proper time during the 
ceremonies, fired a national salute with guns taken at 
different times by the Americans from the British. 

Upon the consolidation of the Military Society of 
the War of 18 12 with the Veteran Corps of Artillery, 
January 8, 1848, Evacuation Day was continued as 
the day for annual meetings for business. 



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Many veterans who had served in the Third Military 
District in that war joined the Corps in the following 
years, including a number of eminent citizens. 

This enrolment so increased the Corps that, in 1849, 
it took a Regimental formation, and in 1852 an Artil- 
lery Brigade organization for military purposes. 

On July 4, 1848, Independence Day was celebrated as 
usual by a national salute at the Battery at sunrise, 
and raising of the flag there and at the Block House. 

In this year the public mind was agitated by political 
questions connected with a Presidential election, m 
which two of the candidates, representing great political 
parties, were veteran ex-officers of the War of 18 12. 

Four veteran members, displeased that the Corps 
would not enter on political questions nor declare 
in favor of one of the veteran candidates, thereupon 
resigned and organized, with assistance of other per- 
sons, including descendants of several veterans of 18 12, 
not members of the Corps, an Artillery Company 
which was subsequently, on April 7, 1856, regularly 
mcorporated with the ist Regiment New York State 
Militia Artillery, and eventually disbanded, January 17, 
1874. 

On July 4, 185 1, pursuant to the Commandant's orders 
of June 21, 185 1, the Corps paraded, in uniform, with 
side arms, at the Superior Court General Term Room in 
the then new Court House, City Hall Park, in the City 
of New York, where the Honorable Ambrose C. Kings- 
land, Mayor of the City, presented to the Corps a flag 
of the United States. 



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In the course of his remarks he said : 

" It is with pride, I can assure you, that I am invited to be 
with you, and, most of all, to perform the pleasing duty of 
presenting to you these colors. 

" It is a tribute most justly due you. . . . On this banner 
are the stripes and stars of our national Union ; under its 
graceflil folds, freedom and protection are dispensed to all, 
unsurpassed by any nation upon earth. 

" This has been achieved and secured by the labors, priva- 
tions, sacrifices, and deaths of very many of our citizens in the 
War of 1776, and in the War of Completion, declared June the 
1 8th, 18 1 2, of which last, yourselves are the honored sur- 
vivors. You were participants in the great struggle of 18 12, 
which secured the liberty and happiness we now enjoy, which 
was commenced and contended for by your honored prede- 
cessors in the War of 1776. 

" Under the ensign of the stars and stripes, and with the 
reveille of the soul-stirring drum and fife, did you and others 
cheerfully labor to form those entrenchments extending from 
Gowanus Bay to the Navy Yard, at Brooklyn, and on this 
island from Hell Gate to Manhattanville, and subsequently 
under the command of His Excellency, our then worthy and 
honored Governor, Daniel D. Tompkins, were you found, with 
others from adjoining counties, at your posts as soldiers, in 
those entrenchments, and elsewhere in and about this harbor, 
forming an impenetrable wall of defence to this great city, 
against any force that our powerful enemy could command, 
which they tacitly acknowledged by changing their scene of 
operations to the South, where your brethren in arms received 
them and gave a satisfactory reception, the record whereof is 
now on file in the archives at Washington, and enrolled on the 
pages of our National History. 

"Veteran Survivors of the War of 18 12! it would ill become 
me to charge you to defend and protect this banner — our 
national ensign, — you have already been tried and proved, 
and not found wanting as defenders of our nation''s rights, our 
nation's honor, and our national independence, which we this 
day celebrate, and of the national flag which this day I have 
the honor to present. ..." 



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In accepting the colors, the Commandant of the Corps 
said : 

"... This Corps received in 1812 the national flag, with 
thirteen stripes and eighteen stars in union. They stood by 
it in peril and in need, in war and in peace, until time has 
numbered thirty-one, all in union. We now receive this flag 
. . still to be our guide, our polar star through the remainder 
of life, and pass down to posterity what we have done. . . . " 

The Corps was then reviewed by the Mayor in the 
City Hall Park, and afterward marched to the Pres- 
byterian Church, corner of Canal and Greene Streets, 
where one of the venerable members, the Reverend 
Gardiner Spring, D.D., LL.D., pastor of the Presby- 
terian Brick Church in Beekman Street, made a prayer; 
another veteran member, Gilbert S. Nixon, Esq., read 
the Declaration of Independence, and the veteran chap- 
lain of the Corps, the Reverend Peter J. Van Pelt, D.D., 
formerly Chaplain U. S. Army, 3d Military District, de- 
livered an oration. 

The Corps concluded the day by dining together as 
usual with toasts and songs. 

On December 5, 185 1, Daniel Slocum, the last of 
the soldiers of the War of the Revolution enrolled in 
the Corps, died in the City of New York, after a mem- 
bership of sixty-one years. 

On July 4, 1853, the Corps having, as usual, fired a 
national salute at the Battery at sunrise, and raised the 
flag, subsequently met at noon and admitted to mem- 
bership in the Corps, at his desire, Daniel Spencer, a 
soldier of the War of the Revolution who had served 
successively in the 4th Regiment Connecticut Continen- 



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tal Infantry and 2d Regiment Continental Light Dra- 
goons until honorably discharged, and who appeared 
at the meeting, although then ninety-four years old. 

On Evacuation Day, November 25, 1853, the Corps 
raised the flag as usual at sunrise, and at noon fired 
a national salute with four field pieces in the City Hall 
Park. 

It was then reviewed by the Honorable Jacob A. 
Westervelt, Mayor. 

In the evening the Corps assembled, by invitation, 
at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, where the Reverend 
Henry Ward Beecher delivered a discourse before 
them on the events and results of the War of 18 12. 

On July 4, 1854, after the usual national salute at 
the Battery and flag raising, the Corps, under escort 
of the Washington Continental Guard, took steamer for 
the Ocean House, Shrewsbury, N.J., where they were 
entertained at a banquet by the son of one of their 
members. 



On July 4, 1855, after the national salute and flag 
raising, the Corps paraded, in uniform, with side arms, 
and then dined at the Star Hotel in Leonard Street. 

On Evacuation Day, November 26, 1855, instead of 
a national salute, the Corps fired the original United 
States salute of thirteen guns at sunrise, and afterward 
dined at the Battery House. 

In later years these banquets were held either at 
the Star Hotel, Mercer House, or Astor House, and 
finally, for several years in succession, at the Sturtevant 
House. 



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On July 4, 1861, the Corps, under escort of the Con- 
tinental Guard, proceeded to the Battery and fired the 
national salute and raised the flao- 

Later in the day, one hundred members in uniform, 
with side arms, assembled at the Mercer House, and, 
after luncheon, marched in the afternoon to the Everett 
House, and escorted from there to the Academy of 
Music, the Honorable Edward Everett, LL.D., of Mas- 
sachusetts, the orator of the Day. 

On July 4, 1862, after the early duties of the Day, 
the Corps reassembled at the Mercer House and 
marched down Broadway to the Park Barracks, where 
they distributed supplies to sick and convalescent sol- 
diers, and then dined together as usual. 

On July 4, 1863, the Corps, whose veteran mem- 
bers were becoming feeble by advancing years, fired a 
national salute for the last time, pursuant to the follow- 
ing Orders : 

"Headquarters ist Division N. Y. N. G., 

"New York, June 27. 1S63. 
" General Orders : 

"No. 6. 

£Ex^rac^.2 

********** 
" The Veteran Artillery will fire the National Salute from 
the Battery at noon. 

********** 
'• By Order of 

"Major General Charles W. Saxford: 
"J. H. Wilcox, 

" Division Inspector.'''' 



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In the following year the Commandant of the Corps 
issued the following Order : 

"New York, July i, 1864. 
" Orders : 

'' The Veteran Corps of the War of 1 812 will assemble at the 
Mercer House, corner of Broome and Mercer Streets, on Mon- 
day, Fourth of July, 1864, at one o'clock p.m., in full uniform, 
to celebrate the eighty-eighth year of our National Inde- 
pendence. 

" The Veterans living in adjacent counties are respectfully 
invited to unite with us in the festivities of the Day. 
" By Order of 

" Henry Raymond, Brigadier Getieral: 
"Isaac M. Phyffe, 

" Acting Adjutant.'''' 

In the next few years many veteran members passed 
away, but the Corps continued regularly to meet on 
Independence Day and Evacuation Day and raise the 
flag at the Battery and at the Block House. 

The last public performance of this duty by the 
venerable members was on November 25, 1890. It 
is, however, still performed in charge of the Corps. 

On November 25, 1881, the Corps was the only 
organization in the City of New York which officially 
celebrated Evacuation Day. 

On May 30, 1882, a detail of twelve veteran mem- 
bers, with the Commandant of the Corps, united, by 
invitation, with Mansfield Post, Grand Army of the 
Republic, in the City of Brooklyn, in celebrating 
Decoration Day. 

At the dinner which followed, Samuel Ryckman of 
the Corps sang "Ye Sons of Columbia," and all his 
venerable comrades joined, as usual, in the chorus. 



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This song, always a favorite with the veterans of the 
War of 1812, was set to the old English tune "To 
Anacreon in Heaven," which was also appropriated, in 
.1814, to the words of "The Star Spangled Banner." 

On July 4, 1882, the Corps again paraded and raised 
the national flag at the Battery and at the Block House, 
Harlem Heights. 

On November 25, 1882, after the performance of this 
duty at the Battery, the Corps, under escort of the 
Old Guard of the City of New York, marched to the 
Stevens House, corner of Broadway and Morris Street, 
where it was joined by the detail sent to the Block 
House, and there dined, as guests of their escort. 

For the National Centennial Celebration, on Novem- 
ber 25, 1883, of the Evacuation of the City of New 
York by the British Army, delegations were invited to 
assist from the several military societies of national 
wars, namely : the " Society of the Cincinnati " of the 
War of the Revolution ; the " Veteran Corps of Artil- 
lery " of the War of 1812 ; the " Aztec Society " of the 
Mexican War, and the " Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion of the United States," and " Grand Army of the 
Republic," of the War of the Rebellion. 

The delegation from the Veteran Corps of Artil- 
lery, which reported in uniform, with side arms, at the 
reviewing stand in Madison Square, consisted of the ven- 
erable Brigadier General Abraham Dally, the President 
and Commandant, Henry Morris, Lieutenant Charles 
Oakley, formerly 2d Regiment New York Militia In- 
fantry in 1 8 14, Lieutenant Michael Moore, U.S.A. 
retired, George Crygier, William John Surree, Thomas 



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Megson, Robert W. Ryckman, Charles Coombs, Elijah 
P. Jenks, Frederick L. Fowler, Thomas Bloomer, Samuel 
Ryckman, and Gardiner Robert Lillibridge. 

In the next six years, many of the remaining vet- 
erans died or became too feeble to parade, until, on the 
occasion of the National Centennial Celebration in the 
City of New York, on April 30, and May i, 1889, of 
the inauguration of the Government of the United 
States under the Constitution, but five members, in- 
cluding the Commandant, were able to parade in uni- 
form with side arms, to meet the President of the United 
States at the reviewing stand in Madison Square to 
officially assist in the military and civic reviews. 

It was then realized by the veterans that unless meas- 
ures were speedily taken to perpetuate the Corps it 
would become extinct like the Association of De- 
fenders of Baltimore in 18 14, the Delaware Veteran 
Companies, and the Pennsylvania Association of De- 
fenders of the Country in the War of 18 12. 

Twenty-two veteran members survived, of whom 
fifteen constituted a quorum. 

After consultation, they unanimously, in writing, 
designated five of their number as Trustees with full 
powers to prepare amended Regulations in the form of 
constitution and by-laws, which should provide for here- 
ditary succession. The Trustees were also, in like 
manner, authorized to admit hereditary members to per- 
petuate the Corps ; to choose permanent officers, and, 
finally, to incorporate under the laws of the State of 
New York as a ?>nlitary Institution, retaining accustomed 



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privileges in manner analogous to the incorporated 
Honorable Artillery Company of London with its 
President, Vice-President, and Court of Assistants 
equivalent to a Council of Administration, or Board of 
Directors. 

The veteran Trustees, under date of September lo, 
1890, the anniversary of the battle of Lake Erie, agreed 
upon and subscribed the amended Regulations, and, 
under date of September 11, 1890, the anniversary of 
the battle of Lake Champlain, admitted certain heredi- 
tary members, and appointed new Officers and Council 
of Administration. 

Although duly empowered by all their associates to 
perform these several acts, the Trustees, nevertheless, 
submitted their proceedings, as before recited, to the 
Corps for approval. 

Three venerable members had meanwhile died. 

The nineteen surviving veterans, however, constitut- 
ing more than a quorum, over their hands and seals, 
duly acknowledged, unanimously united in ratifying 
and approving the amended Regulations for the Corps, 
and in the admission of the hereditary members and 
appointment of new Officers and Council of Adminis- 
tration. 

In the amended Regulations the name of the Corps, 
as a military Society, was resumed, and the date of 
annual meeting was restored to the anniversary of the 
signal victory achieved by the American army and 
Naval force in the battle of New Orleans over a greatly 
superior veteran British army and naval detachment. 



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Under these Regulations, descendants of enlisted 
men in the Regular, Volunteer, Militia, or Letter of 
Marque forces, in the War of 1812, who had not been 
original members in one of the veteran military soci- 
eties, were rendered eligible. 

The total State volunteers and militia forces which 
had been called at different times into the military 
service of the United States in the War of 18 12, 
amounted, in the aggregate, to 410,603, of which the 
State of New York had furnished 77,^^7, and, as it was 
not intended that the Corps, in its capacity as a Mili- 
tary Society recognized by Congress, should enter on 
the enlarged field of usefulness of patriotic societies 
formed by descendants of participants in the First or 
Second Wars of Independence, it was deemed desirable 
to restore, with certain necessary exceptions, the rule of 
the Society of the War of 18 12 adopted in 1826. 

Accordingly, on October 26, 1893, the anniversary 
of the action on the Chateaugay, Lower Canada, a 
meeting of the Corps was held in the Governor's Room 
of the City Hall, in the City of New York, on which 
occasion, with the written approval of all the surviving 
veteran Original members, an amendment was unani- 
mously adopted to the Regulations, restricting and lim- 
iting, thereafter, the admission of hereditary members 
to the proper descendants of commissioned officers, 
aides-de-camp, and commanding officers of private 
armed vessels of the United States which served at 
sea under commissions of Letters of Marque and 
Reprisal from the United States, and to the proper 
descendants of original and hereditary members of 
the Corps heretofore duly admitted, and to the proper 



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descendants of original and hereditary members in 
military societies formed prior to January 8, 1856, by 
men who served in the armies and navies of the United 
States in the War of 1812, and to the proper descend- 
ants of the veteran delegates to the National Conven- 
tions of 1854 and 1855, who were eligible to original 
membership in the Corps. 

The rolls of the Corps show that, since 1790, there 
have been seven hundred and fifteen veteran original 
members, of whom two hundred and thirty were com- 
missioned officers. 

Of the sixty-nine members who actually served with 
the Corps in the military service of the United States 
in 1 8 14, George Crygier was the last survivor, he hav- 
ing enlisted as a musician, October 29, 18 14, to take 
the place of George Clarke, a soldier of the Revolution, 
who was unable, by reason of physical disability, to 
properly perform the duty. The other members at that 
time were all veterans of the Revolution. 

Mr. Crygier continued an active and interested mem- 
ber of the Corps until his decease, in the City of New 
York, March 31, 1888. 

For many years the headquarters of the Corps Avere 
at the Star Hotel in Leonard Street, and then at Mili- 
tary Hall, 193 Bowery, and finally at Room No. 4 in 
the City Hall, the use of which was accorded by the 
Common Council. 

Upon the establishment of Cypress Hills Cemetery 
on Long Island, six lots on Mount Victory were dedi- 
cated to the Corps. 



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Here, since June, 1854, thirty-six deceased veteran 
members have been interred with funeral honors, the 
last being the venerable Abraham Dally of the Coun- 
cil of Administration of the Corps, on February 19, 
1893, in the ninety-eighth year of his age. 

On January 8, 1892, pursuant to previous authori- 
zation from their venerable Associates, the veteran 
Trustees, with consent of the Special Term of the Su- 
preme Court of the State of New York, incorporated 
the Corps as a Military Institution and body politic, for 
certain purposes, under the laws of the State. 

On November 25, 1893, upon the occasion of the 
unveiling in City Hall Park of the bronze statue of 
Captain Nathan Hale by the patriotic society of the 
Sons of the Revolution, a delegation from the Corps 
and from the other regular military societies of the 
Cincinnati, Aztec, and Loyal Legion, proceeded, under 
escort of a detachment of the regular army and navy 
from Fraunce's Tavern in Broad Street, to assist in 
the ceremony. - 

On March 9, 1895, the Legislature of the State of 
New York, by special Act amending the incorpora- 
tion of the Corps, conferred on it certain rights and 
confirmed it in all its prescriptive and statutory privi- 
legres. 



'fc>^ 



One of the prescriptive privileges was the right to 
select its own uniform for purely military purposes. 

Upon the formation of the Corps, the uniform worn 
by the Continental Corps of Artillery at the close of 



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the War of the Revolution was, as far as practicable, 
adopted. 

That uniform consisted of a blue or black coat reach- 
ing to the knee and full trimmed, lapels fastened back 
with ten open-worked buttonholes in yellow silk or 
thread on each lapel, and ten large yellow Artillery 
Corps buttons at equal distances on each side ; three 
large yellow Artillery Corps buttons on each cuff and 
a like number on each pocket flap; the skirts hooked 
back, showing red lining ; bottom of coat cut square, 
red lapels, and standing collar or cape each two 
inches wide, and red cuffs three inches wide ; 
single breasted white waistcoat with twelve small yel- 
low Artillery Corps buttons, and short pocket flaps 
with three small buttons on each ; blue, black, or white 
breeches, black gaiters reaching nearly to the knee; 
white cravat for officers and black stock or cravat for 
sergeants and rank and file ; shirt ruffled at the breast 
and wrists for officers ; black cocked hat bound with 
yellow tape or braid; black cockade, and, after 1782,- 
black plume topped with red, rising therefrom six 
inches ; cut and thrust sword, yellow mounted, two feet 
six inches in length, with black or yellow gripe ; gilt 
epaulets for officers, one or two according to rank, 
and, after May 14, 1782, yellow worsted shoulder knots 
for sergeants on each shoulder, and on the right shoul- 
der only for corporals ; white waist belts and white 
shoulder belt over right shoulder; red silk sashes for 
officers and red worsted sashes for sergeants, and 
white gloves. 

The musicians' coats were deep red with dark blue 
facings and dark blue vests and breeches. 



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As pantaloons, instead of breeches, with black half 
gaiters seven inches long, were prescribed for the 
Army of the United States in General Orders from 
Army Headquarters, Loftus Heights, January 19, 
1 79 1, they were adopted by the Veteran Corps of 
Artillery. 

The figures "1776" in yellow metal were, at the 
same time, put on the cockade of the Corps. 

The Corps also adopted a distinctive plume for the 
officers, red topped with white, upright hackle, eight 
inches long. 

In 1802, the present civilians' silk hat, then termed 
a "round hat," made of beaver skin, which had its 
origin in the Army of the Revolution, came into use 
in the Army of the United States, and, as it had already 
practically supplanted the cocked hat in civil life, was 
adopted by the Veteran Corps, with chapeaux for the 
officers, as prescribed in United States Army Regula- 
tions, the cockade and respective plumes being re- 
tained. 

In 1809, after the officers of the Corps had been com- 
missioned by brevet, the question arose, in view of ma- 
terial changes then contemplated in the uniform of the 
Army of the United States so as to conform more 
nearly in fashion to the uniforms in Foreign Services, 
whether it was obligatory on the Corps to discard its 
own uniform for the somewhat antiquated one pre- 
scribed in State Regulations, or whether it could adojjt 
such bill of dress as might be found desirable. 

Accordingly Commandant McLean wrote to the Gov- 
ernor of the State of New York, and received the fol- 
lowing reply : 



" Dea7' Sir . 



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"Albany, November 27, 1809. 



"The law neither prescribes a uniform for the Veteran 
Corps nor authorizes the Governor to do it. 

"If, therefore, they think proper to uniform, they are at 
liberty to select such dress as the taste and wish of the Com- 
pany may suggest. 

********** 
" I am, Dear Sir, Respectfully, 

" Your obedient Servant, 

"Daniel D. Tompkins." 

In 1 8 10, dark blue single-breasted coats, without 
facings, were prescribed for the Artillery of the Army 
of the United States, and adopted by the Veteran 
Corps, instead of the old-fashioned Revolutionary coat ; 
but, from the difficulty of procuring blue cloth from 
abroad, black was used until 18 16. 

Except that, in 1821, trousers were substituted for 
pantaloons and gaiters, this uniform, for any military 
purpose, continued to be the uniform of the Veteran 
Corps until 1865, when black frock coats with black 
buttons, civilians' shape, and black trousers took the 
place of the 'single-breasted dark blue uniform coats 
and trousers, and the Artillery Corps buttons of the 
Revolution disappeared from the bill of dress. 

The original insignia or distinctive badge of the 
military Society of the War of 18 12, was a plain 
o-old or gilt "Cincinnati" eagle, with wings dis- 
played, inverted, —typical of the Second War of 
Independence, — holding in its talons a scroll bearing 
the figures 18 12 and suspended by a deep red and 
dark blue ribbon. 



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The form of the insignia was subsequently changed 
by the Veteran Original Members in their Amended 
Regulations, but the eagle was retained. 

The distinctive ribbon was also retained because its 
colors were the primary colors of the Flag, as well as 
the distinguishing colors, for many years, of the Ameri- 
can Artillery. 

In several States, during the War of 1812, dark blue 
coats edged with red were the Regulation uniforms of 
both the militia artillery and infantry, and the Legislat- 
ure of the State of Pennsylvania, by Act of March, 
18 14 {General Orders, State Headquarters, Philadelphia, 
September 13, 1814), not only prescribed such colors for 
those arms of service, but also enacted that the State 
cockade for all of the State's militia should be blue and 
red. 



STATE AND NATIONAL CONVENTIONS 

OF 

VETERANS OF THE WAR OF 1812. 



On July 4, 1853, the surviving officers and soldiers 
of the War of 1812 in the State of New York held 
a State Convention in the General Term Room of the 
New York Supreme Court in the then new Court 
House, City Hall Park, in the City of New York, at 
which the Veteran Corps of Artillery was represented 
by a delegation of its officers. 

Among the resolutions adopted was the following : 

" Resolved : 

'■' That this Convention deem it expedient to the furtherance 
of the various interests of the Soldiers of the War of 18 12. that 
' The Veteran Corps ' of the City of New York be so extended 
as to embrace the several counties and the enrolment of the 
names of those residing therein throughout the State." 

This State Convention also resolved that they would 
have a general-in-chief and accordingly appointed one 
of their number. 

The recommendation to the Corps to enroll in their 
ranks all the veterans throughout the State was not 
favorably considered by the Corps, and not accepted. 

On June 20, and 21, 1854, a second State Convention 
of Veterans of the War of 1812 in the State of New 
York was held at Syracuse, N.Y., at which the Veteran 
Corps of Artillery was again duly represented. 

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This Convention had reference only to bounty lands 
and pensions for disabled veterans and claims of proper 
reimbursement for clothing destroyed in service. 

In the following year, on January 9, 1854, a National 
Convention of all veterans of the War of 18 12, who 
chose to attend, was held in Independence Hall, Phila- 
delphia, for the purpose of urging upon Congress the 
propriety of granting land bounties and pensions to 
those who served in that war. 

To this National Convention, the Veteran Corps of 
Artillery sent a delegation, in uniform, of twenty-one 
members, including the Commandant, Chaplain, and 
Adjutant, which was met at the Camden and Amboy 
railroad depot in Philadelphia by a Reception Com- 
mittee and by a Company of Pennsylvania National 
Guards and escorted to Independence Hall, where they 
were received with nine cheers by the assembled 
veterans. 

The only other Military Societies of veterans repre- 
sented at this National Convention were the Second and 
Third Companies of Artillery and First Company of 
Light Infantry, of Delaware, now extinct, and the 
Association of Defenders of Baltimore in 18 14, which 
had been formed April i, 1842; but, having refused, on 
August 25, 1880, by formal vote, twelve members being 
a quorum, to admit descendants, has since become ex- 
tinct, by the decease, on December 17, 1888, of the last 
original member. 

At this National Convention of 1854, a motion was 
adopted for " the appointment of a committee to consist 
of nine, to devise means to organize a National Society 



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of the soldiers of 1 8 12, to meet on the 4th of July, at 
Independence Hall at Philadelphia." 

The committee was appointed by the Chairman, but 
never reported, and nothing further was done. The 
subject was, however, resumed at the next National 
Convention. 

The National Convention of 1854 also, by resolve, 
" respectfully recommended to the soldiers of the War 
of 1812, to form a Society in each of the States of the 
Republic, and that the 8th of January be set apart as 
the day of annual meeting." 

At the request of the delegates from the State of 
New York, the Convention also recommended and ad- 
vised " that the General-in-Chief of the Veterans of the 
War of 18 1 2 in that State, organize the said Veterans 
into brigades and regiments, and that he appoint suit- 
able and efficient officers to command the same." 

After providing for memorials to Congress, as to 
bounty lands and pensions, and for a committee to 
wait on that body, the National Convention became 
functus officio by adjourning sine die. 

On September 17, 1854, a third State Convention of 
Veterans of the War of 18 12 in the State of New York 
was held at Fonda, N.Y., at which the Veteran Corps 
of Artillery was duly represented. 

This Convention of Veterans approved the action 
of their General-in-Chief, taken on recommendation of 
the late National Convention, to form them into regi- 
ments and brigades, although such formation did not 
long continue throughout the State. 



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The Veteran Corps of Artillery, which had previ- 
ously taken a brigade formation, was declared to be 
a separate brigade. Its Commandant was given the 
permanent title of Brigadier-General, and its Vice- 
Commandant the title of Colonel, and for temporary 
sub-formations for any military purpose those who 
acted as officers were to be designated by the titles 
appertaining to such functions. 

On January 8, 1855, a second National Convention 
of all Veterans of the War of 18 12 who chose to attend, 
was held in the Presbyterian Church, 4^- Street, Wash- 
ington, D.C., for the same declared purposes as the 
National Convention of the previous year, and the ex- 
ofificer who had then presided was again chosen Chair- 
man. 

To this National Convention the Veteran Corps of 
Artillery sent a delegation of fifteen members. 

The Delaware Companies of Veterans and Old 
Defenders of Baltimore, which comprised the remaining 
military societies, were also represented. 

Under escort of a regiment of District of Columbia 
militia, the members of the National Convention pro- 
ceeded to the Executive Mansion and were formally 
received and welcomed by the President of the United 
States. 

The Senate of the United States, by resolve of Jan- 
uary 9, 1855, extended to them the privileges of the 
floor during the sitting of the Convention. 

This Convention, in order to give effect to the sug- 
gestion in the General Convention of the previous year. 



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for the surviving veterans to organize themselves into 
a national or general society, adopted resolves as 
follows, namely : 

'■'■ Resolved: That the surviving soldiers of the Army 
and Navy in the War of 1812, do now form themselves into 
a Society to be known as the ' United Brethren of the 
War of 181 2.' 

'■'■Resolved: That it is expedient for the United Brothers 
of the War of 181 2, in the several States of the Union and in 
the District of Columbia, to organize themselves into divisions, 
brigades, and regiments. 

'■'■Resolved: That at every Convention hereafter called dind 
held by the United Brothers of the War of 181 2, each dele- 
gate shall record his name, place of residence, and his military 
services in that War. 

'^Resolved: That when this Convention adjourn, it adjourn 
to meet in the City of Washington, D.C., on the 8th of 
January, 1856." 

These resolutions provided for a society in the form 
of a National Convention to be composed exclusively 
of Veterans and to meet in Washington in the follow- 
ing year, but the Veterans never held another National 
Convention, nor was any strictly military organization 
into divisions, brigades, and regiments in the several 
States other than New York subsequently effected as 
contemplated by the resolves. 

This convention of 1855 also resolved, "that in order 
to obtain justice for ourselves and the widows and 
orphans of our deceased brother soldiers, it is important 
to have a complete organization in each State of the 
soldiers of the War of 1812." 

This was a repetition of the recommendatory resolve 
of the previous National Convention of 1854, "to form 
a society in each of the States of the Republic." 



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But one State society was thus formed, namely, 
" The Pennsylvania Association of the Defenders of 
the Country in the War of 1812," which was organized 
in Philadelphia, July 4, 1857. 

Under its constitution, as amended July 4, i860, 
" the sons, or in default of sons, the grandsons, of those 
who served their country in the War of 1812" were 
made eligible to be admitted as members of the Asso- 
ciation, but the right, thus limited, was but infrequently 
availed of, and, as thirteen members were necessary 
for a quorum, the veteran original members passed 
away without adequate provision having been made, 
under the amended constitution, for the perpetuation 
of the Association, and it became extinct. 

On October 17, 1856, a fourth State Convention of 
Veterans of the War of 1812 in the State of New 
York was held at Schuylerville, N.Y., to celebrate the 
anniversary of the capitulation of the British army 
under Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne in 1777. 

The Veteran Corps of Artillery was duly represented 
at this Convention, which was the last ever held. 



LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

APPERTAINING TO 

THE CORPS AS A MILITARY INSTITUTION. 



Privileges of Certain Corps : 

"All Corps of Artillery . . now existing in any State, 
which, by any law, custom, or usage thereof, have not been 
incorporated with the Militia, or are not governed by the 
General Regulations thereof, shall be allowed to retain their 
accustomed privileges, subject, nevertheless, to all other duties 
required by law in like manner as the other militia." — 
Revised Statjites of the United States, Section 16:^1, approved 
June 22, 1874. 

Lazu as to Insignia : 

" Joint resolution granting permission to officers and 
enlisted men of the Army and Navy of the United 
States to wear the badges adopted by Military Societies 
of men who served in the War of the Revolution, the 
War of 18 1 2, the Mexican War, and the War of the 
Rebellion." 

'■'■Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

the United States of America in Congress assembled. That 

the distinctive badges adopted by Military Societies of men 

who served in the Armies and Navies of the United States in 

the War of the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican 

War, and the War of the Rebellion, respectively, may be worn 

upon all occasions of ceremony by officers and enlisted men of 

the Army and Navy of the United States who are members of 

said organizations in their own right. — Approved September 

25, 1890." 

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United States Navy Regulations as to Insignia : 

I. 

" General Order \ Navy Department, 

No. 385. J Washington, November 7, 1890. 

" In compliance with the above joint resolution and act of 
Congress the uniform regulations of the Navy are modified as 
follows : The phrase, ' occasions of ceremony,' in the resolu- 
tion, will include all general musters, reviews, general and 
weekly inspections, and any occasions when officers and men 
are required to appear in full dress or dress uniforms. 

" The badges are to be worn on the left breast of the coat or 
seaman's frock, the tops of the ribbons forming a horizontal 
line, the outer end of which shall be one inch below the upper 
line of the shoulder. 

"The ribbons are to be suspended from a bar of metal 
passed through their upper ends attached to the coat or frock, 
but no part of the bar is to be seen. When a buckle forms a 
part of the badge it will be worn in line with the tops of the 
ribbons. 

" The badges are to be so arranged that those commemora- 
tive of the more modern events shall be nearest the shoulder. 

" Medals of Honor, good-conduct badges, and medals for 
special acts of gallantry will be worn on the end of the line 
away from the shoulder. 

'• B. F. Tracy, 

'• Secretary of the Navy.'''' 

United States Army Regulations as to Insignia : 



" Headquarters of the Army, 
" General Orders > Adjutant-General's Office, 

No. 133. S Washington, November 18, 1S90. 

"In compliance with the above joint resolution the uniform 
regulations of the Army are modified as follows : The phrase 
*occa.sions of ceremony,' in the resolution, will include all 
musters, reviews, inspections, parades, and other occasions on 



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which officers and men are required to appear in full dress 

uniform. 

" The badges to be worn on the left breast of the coat, the 
tops of the ribbons forming a horizontal Une, the outer end of 
which shall be from two to four inches (according to the height 
of the wearer) below the upper line of the shoulder. 

"The ribbons are to be suspended from a bar of metal 
passed through their upper ends and attached to the coat. 
*********** 
'• By command of 

•• Ivlajor-General Schofield : 

'• Chauncey AIcKeever, 

^^ Acting Adjutant-General'' 

By decision of the Acting Secretary of War, on April 

25, 1891,— 

'• Officers of the Army who are members by inheritance in 
any of the military societies referred to in the act of September 
25, 1890, published in General Orders, No. 133. of November 
18, 1890, from this office, are entitled to wear the badges 
adopted by such societies on occasions of ceremony." 
{Circular No. 4, 1891, 

Headquarters of the Army, 

Adjidant-GeneraVs Office.) 

Penal Code of the State of Nezv York, as to nnaiitJiorized 

wearhig of insignia. 

"Any person who wilfully wears the insignia or rosette of 
The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 
or of any Society, Order, or organization of ten years' standing 
in the State of New York, or uses the same to obtain aid or 
assistance within this State, unless entitled to use or wear the 
same under the Constitution and By-Laws, Rules and Regula- 
tions of such Order or of such Society, is guilty of a mis- 
demeanor." — Z«w.y of New York, Chapter 505, amending 
Section 674 of Penal Code, approved May 7, 1894. 



REGULATIONS AS TO THE INSIGNIA 

{Vide Constitution, Article VIII?). 

1. The Order of this Military Institution will always be worn at 
its meetings and on any detached or representative duty. 

It shall never be worn at other times, except on " occasions of 
ceremony," including special commemorations of a ;/a//^««/ character, 
and should only be worn in the manner prescribed in the Regulations 
for the Army of the United States, unless a member be in the Navy 
of the United States, in which case the Regulations for that service 
will control. 

Occasions of ceremony where Medals and Orders may properly be 
worn should be determined by the custom of the Military or Naval 
services of the United States, respectively, or when no such custom 
exists, by Continental usage. 

The prescribed Rosette may be worn on other occasions, but shall 
not be worn at the same time as the Order. 

2. fflctials of |l?onor conferred by the President of the United 
States, in the name of Congress, for distinguished gallantry or 
extraordinary heroism in action, under the joint resolution approved 
July 12, 1862, and Act approved March 3, 1863, or Section 1407 
U. S. Revised Statutes, shall take precedence of all Orders, and, 
when worn, shall be placed in the same line furthest from the left 
shoulder. 

Medals conferred under any special act of Congress should, if 
awarded for the same ki7id of service, take precedence with fHrtals of 
lljonor according to the date of the acts, respectively, for which they 
were conferred ; otherwise such official Medals should, when worn, 
be placed next in line towards the left shoulder. 

Medals or Crosses conferred by Foreign Governments for " dis- 
tinguished " services, and authorized to be worn, should, when worn, 
be placed in line according to this Regulation, but if not conferred 
for such services, should follow in line after Military Orders. 

3. Foreign Orders, when worn in the same manner, take pre- 
cedence with the Orders or Distinctive Badges of Military Societies 

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reco-nized by Congress, according to date of foundation or organi- 
zatio'n, respectively, of such Foreign Orders as compared with the 
date of the war of the United States symboUzed and commemo- 
rated by the formation of the Military Society. 

They should, when worn, all be in the same line, and precedence 
between Military Societies should be determined in like manner. 

When, however, two or more Military Societies shall have been 
formed by men who served in the same war of the United States, 
the elder of these in date of foundation or organization should have 
precedence. 

4 Army Corps Badges of the Armies of the United States, 
authorized by Section 1227, U. S. Revised Statutes, to be worn on 
occasions of ceremony for honorable service during the War of the 
Rebellion, should, when worn, be placed on a line two inches to the 
left and one-half inch below the lower point of the first Medal or 
Order in the line prescribed for fHcUals of lonor. 

5. U. S. Marksman^s Medals awarded in the military service of 
the United States under sanction of the Act of Congress, approved 
September 12, 1888, and subsequent acts, should, when worn, be 
placed next in the same line with Army Corps Badges towards the 

left shoulder. 

The Order of this Military Institution should never be worn at the 
same time as a U. S. Marksman^s Medal unless when in uniform on 
an occasion of ceremony, where, by custom of the U. S. service, such 
medal is an appropriate part of such uniform. 

6 State Medals for honorable service in any war should, when 
worn, be placed in the same line with Army Corps Badges and next 
on the left of U. S. Marksmen's Medals. 

7. State Marksmen's Medals or Badges or prescribed Badges of 
Militia Hospital Corps should, when worn, be placed, in the order 
named in the same line with Army Corps Badges and next to the 
left of State Medals for honorable service in war, except when 
required by Militia Regulations to be worn otherwise. 

The Order of this Military Institution should not be worn at the 
same time as a State Marksman's or Hospital Corps Badge, unless 
when, in full dress uniform on an occasion of ceremony, such medal 
or badge is required by Militia Regulations to be worn. 



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8. The Congress of the United States having, by joint resolution, 
approved September 25, 1890, recognized the material distinction 
betvi^een Military Societies, as Institutions formed exclusively by men 
who served in the armies and navies of the United States in one or 
other of the four national wars declared by Congress, and Pat?-iotic 
or Historic-Conune/norativc Societies, as Associations organized for 
patriotic, commemorative, or kindred purposes, by descendants of 
civic, military, or naval participants in former events of local or 
national importance, and, as the particular badges of such Patriotic 
or Historic-Commemorative Societies are not authorized by Congress 
to be worn, the Order of this Military Institution should never be 
worn at the same time as the particular badge of any of such societies 
unless on a A^(7^/iC>;/«/ Commemorative occasion, where the celebration 
is under the direct charge of one of such societies, or except in 
uniform in the militia service of a State, when authorized by the 
Regulations thereof. 

When worn, under such circumstances, the particular badge of 
the patriotic or historic-commemorative society should be placed on 
the same line with and to the left of Army Corps and State Marks- 
men's and Hospital Corps Badges. 

9. Medals, Badges, or other decorations presented by Municipal 
or other corporations, or by Civic or Military Associations or Mili- 
tary Commanders, or by Divisions, Brigades, Regiments, Companies, 
Boards of Officers, or individuals, should never be worn at the same 
time with the Order of this Military Institution, except that, when 
in uniform, Long Service Decorations, conferred by Military Author- 
ity of a State and sanctioned by the Regulations thereof, may be so 
worn on the line to the left of State Marksmen's Badges. 

ID. The members of this Military Institution are enjoined to pre- 
vent, under the authority conferred by law, any abuse of its insignia 
of honor, or unlawful interference with or infringement on its 
chartered title and prescriptive privileges confirmed by law. 

Intentional departure from these Regulations will constitute an 
opposition to the particular interests of this Military Institution, and 
any member cognizant of the same should report the fact to the 
Secretary and Adjutant. 



UNIFORM OF THE VETERAN CORPS OF ARTILLERY 
FOR MILITARY PURPOSES. 



Coat. — For all members except of the clergy: civilian black frock 
coat, prevailing style, worn buttoned, with white shirt, white 
collar and cuffs, and black cravat. 

For clerical members : single-breasted black coat with stand- 
ing collar. 

For occasions of ceremony other than Corps formations for 
military purposes, a civilian''s evening black dress coat and 
white cravat may be substituted. 

Trousers. — Black in winter and white in summer. 

Chapeau. — For officers : of black felt, the fan not less than six and 
a half nor more than nine inches high in the rear, nor less than 
fifteen, nor more than seventeen and a half inches from point 
to point, bound round the edge with black binding an half-inch 
wide. 

Button and loop, yellow. 

Hat. — For members, other than officers : civilian black silk hat, pre- 
vailing style. 

Cockade. — Black silk, circular, scalloped edges, four and a half 
inches in diameter, with gilt or yellow metal eagle in the 
centre, the eagle one and one-half inches between the tips of 
the wings displayed, inverted, and holding in its talons an open 
scroll containing the Arabic figures " 1812." 

The cockade to be worn on the upper left side of the chapeau 
or hat, and within half an inch of the top. 

Plume. — For officers: red feathers topped with white, upright 
hackle, eight inches long. 

For other members : black feather, topped with red, six 
inches long, as prescribed by General Washington in General 
Orders from Army Headquarters, Tea Neck, August 29, 
1780, for the temporary light infantry formation, but appro- 
priated to the Artillery Corps in 1782, and confirmed to the 

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artillery by General Orders, War Department, New York, 
January 30, 1787. 

The plume to rise from the top of the cockade. 
Sword. — Cut and thrust, yellow mounted, two feet six inches in 
length, with black or yellow gripe, and black leather scabbard. 
Sword knots : gold and red silk or black leather. 
Belt. — Waist belt of white leather two inches wide, with yellow, 
oval, front plate of same width containing the raised Arabic 
figures "181 2" ; white leather shoulder belt of same width 
over the right shoulder, with frog for sword. 

Belts to be worn underneath the evening dress coat. 
Sash. — Red net silk for officers, for any military purpose, to be 

worn round the waist under the belt, the tie at left hip. 
Vest. — Black, prevailing civilian style, for military purposes. 

Black or white on other occasions. 
Gloves. — White. 
Shoes. — Black. 



-ooJSt^c 



RESOLUTION OF COMMON COUNCIL AS TO THE 
GOVERNOR'S ROOM, CITY HALL. 

In Common Council 

OF THE City of New York. 

'■'•Resolved: That until the further order of this Board 'The 
Society of the War of 181 2,' founded and incorporated by the 
Veterans of that War, and commonly known as ' The Veteran 
Corps of Artillery,' may continue to have the use of the Gov- 
ernor's Room in the City Hall of this City, for their annual 
meetings on the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, or 
succeeding day, when such anniversary shall fall on Sunday. 

'■'■ Approved, December 14, 1894." 



REGULATIONS. 



CONSTITUTION 

AS AMENDED. 

PREAMBLE. 

Whereas : the Congress of the United States, by Act 
approved June i8, 1812, declared war to exist between 
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and 
the dependencies thereof and the United States of 
America and their territories, and 

Whereas : this appeal to arms by the American people, 
after unexampled forbearance, was made necessary 
by a continued series of hostile encroachments and 
aggressions on their rights, interests, and territorial 
jurisdiction, and in defence of certain great principles 
of the law of nations which had been oppressively 
violated, for several years, to their great injury ; princi- 
ples which may be summarized as follows : 

1. That the Independence and territorial sovereignty 
of the nation is inviolable. 

2. That the National flag protects seamen on regu- 
larly documented American vessels against Foreign 
impressment. 

3. That the Neutral flag covers enemy's goods with 
the exception of contraband of war. 

4. That neutral goods, with the exception of contra- 
band of war, are not liable to capture under an enemy's 

flag ; and 

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5- That blockades, in order to be binding, must be 
effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force suf- 
ficient really to prevent access to the coast of the 
enemy and preclude a reasonable chance of entrance ; 
and 

Whereas: it is fitting that the principles for which 
"The War of Eighteen Hundred and Twelve" was 
waged by the United States should ever be borne in 
remembrance and upheld by the American people, 

Tliercforc : this Military Society has been instituted 
by men who served in the Armies and Navies of the 
United States in the War of Eighteen Hundred and 
Twelve to inspire among the Members and among the 
American People, the patriotic spirit of those who, in 
the military or naval service of the United States, or 
in service on private armed vessels of the United States 
bearing commissions of letters of marque and reprisal 
from the United States, during that war, defended their 
country against hostile encroachments on its rights 
and interests, and caused its sovereignty and independ- 
ence to be respected ; to inculcate and maintain the 
great principles of the Law of Nations for which they 
contended ; to collect and preserve the manuscript 
rolls, records and other documents relating to that 
War, and to commemorate the Land and Naval victo- 
ries of the American arms in that war ; to undertake 
and assist in the erection of proper memorials thereof ; 
to perpetuate the mutual friendships formed in that 
war under the pressure of common danger, and to 
promote fellowship among the members of every 
degree ; to participate in the celebration of other his- 
toric patriotic events of National importance, and gen- 



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erally to take such measures, patriotic, historical, 
literary, benevolent, and social, as may conduce to 
the general intendment of this Institution and better 
accomplish the objects thereof. 

ARTICLE I. 

NAME OF INSTITUTION. 

This Military Society shall be known by the name, 
style, and title of " The Society of the War of Eighteen 
Hundred and Twelve." 

ARTICLE II. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

The Members of this Institution shall be of two 
classes, namely : 

Oj'iginal or Hereditary, who shall be members in their 
own right, and 

Honorary, who shall be members for their own lives 
without heritable succession. 

I. OriQ-inal Members: 

Any " Defender of the Country" in the War of 1812 
shall be eligible to Original Membership, who served 
honorably in the Armies or Navies of the United 
States in that war, and who shall, solely by reason of 
said service, be entitled under the laws of the United 
States to have his name placed on the pension rolls 
of the United States, 

Provided, that he shall have maintained since said 
war an honorable character; 



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And provided further, that such eligibility to original 
membership shall comprise and be limited to the follow- 
ing classes of persons who actually served as combatants 
in that war, namely : 

First : Commissioned and non-commissioned Officers, 
Musicians, and Privates whether of the regulars, volun- 
teers, rangers, militia, or State troops of any State or 
Territory, who were regularly mustered or called into 
the military service and pay of the United States. 

Second : Volunteers who actually served under arms 
during a campaign in the field with the armed forces 
of the United States, subject to military orders, whether 
regularly mustered into the service of the United States 
or not, including those volunteers who served in man- 
ner stated either at the attack on Lewiston in Delaware 
by the British Fleet on April G-y, 1813, or at the inva- 
sion of Plattsburgh, N.Y., in September, 18 14, and 
including also the Volunteer Aides-de-Camp of General 
Officers who were duly announced as such in General 
Orders and served in the field in manner stated. 

Third: Commissioned and Non-commissioned Offi- 
cers, Seamen, Ordinary Seamen, Flotilla men, and 
Landsmen in the Navy of the United States. 

Fourth: Commissioned and Non-commissioned Offi- 
cers and enlisted Men of the Marine Corps of the 
United States. 

FiftJi : Officers, Seamen, and Marines of the private 
armed vessels of the United States which bore com- 
missions of letters of marque and reprisal from the 
United States and actually performed service at sea. 

Sixtli : Commissioned and Warrant Officers and Sea- 
men of the Revenue Cutters of the United States who 



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were actually engaged in any battle or under fire of 
the enemy, while co-operating with the Navy by order 
of the President of the United States. 

2. Hereditary Members : 

Any male person of the age of twenty-one years 
and upwards shall be eligible to H credit a rj Member- 
ship who shall be lineally descended from an ancestor, 
as the propositus, who, if surviving, would be eligible 
to original membership under any one of the fore- 
going provisions of this Article. 

Provided, that when there shall be no surviving 
issue in direct lineal succession from an original or 
hereditary member or from a commissioned officer who 
served in action against the enemy in the War of 1812, 
or from an officer, soldier, sailor, or marine who died 
from wounds received in action, or was killed while in 
actual service in that war or who received, by formal 
resolve, the approbation of the Congress of the United 
States for services in that war, the claim of eligibility 
to hereditary membership shall descend and be limited 
to one representative at a time in the nearest collateral 
line of descent from such propositus, who may be other- 
wise qualified as herein required, and to be designated 
by the Society ; and no other descendants in collateral 
lines shall be admitted in right of any services what- 
ever. 

No service of an ancestor shall be deemed as qual- 
ifying service for hereditary membership where such 
ancestor shall have subsequently either adhered to 
the enemy during that war, or failed to maintain an 
honorable record. 



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No person shall be admitted to hereditary member- 
ship unless he be eligible under one of the foregoing 
provisions of this section of Article II, nor unless he 
be of good moral character and be otherwise judged 
worthy of becoming a member. 

[Amendment to article governing hereditary mem- 
bership, adopted October i8, 1893 : 

'"On and after January 8, 1894, eligibility to Hereditary 
Membership shall be restricted and limited to the proper 
descendants of Commissioned Officers, Aides-de-Camp, and 
Commanding Officers of private armed vessels of the United 
States, comprehended and described in Section i of this 
Article ; and to the proper descendants of Original and 
Hereditary Members of this Institution heretofore duly ad- 
mitted ; and to the proper descendants of Original Members 
in Military Societies formed prior to January 8, 1856, by men 
who served in the armies and navies of the United States in 
the War of 1812; and to hereditary members heretofore 
admitted in such military societies and their proper descend- 
ants ; and to the proper descendants of the Veteran Delegates 
to the National Conventions of the soldiers of the War of 
1812, held respectively in the city of Philadelphia on January 
9, 1854, and in the city of Washington on January 8, 1855 ; 
provided, the actual military or sea service of the original 
member ox propositus from whom descent is derived, were such 
as would have made him eligible to Original Membership in 
this Institution, and none other shall be eligible to Hereditary 
Membership."] 

3. Honorary Members: 

The President and ex-Presidents of the United 
States, the Vice-President and ex-Vice-Presidents of 
the United States, the Judges of the Supreme and 
Circuit Courts of the United States, General Officers of 
the Armies of the United States not below the grade of 
major-general. Flag Officers of the Navy of the United 



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States not below the grade of rear-admiral, General 
Officers of the Society of the Cincinnati and Presidents 
of State Societies of that Order, and Citizens who have 
received the formal approbation of the Congress of 
the United States for distinguished conduct or eminent 
services, shall alone be eligible to Honorary Member- 
ship. 

ARTICLE III. 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 
{Coitncil of Administration.) 

The control and management of the affairs and funds 
of the Society shall be in a Board of Directors who 
shall be elected by the Society from its members. 

The Directors so elected shall be divided into classes 
so that not less than one-fourth of their number shall be 
elected annually. 

ARTICLE IV. 

OFFICERS. 

The officers of the Society shall be a President, a 
Vice-President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, who shall 
be elected annually by the Board of Directors from 
their own number. 

A Chaplain, a Registrar, and an Assistant Secretary 
may, in like manner, be elected from among the mem- 
bers of the Society, and also a Surgeon. 

ARTICLE V. 

ADMISSION OF MEMBERS. 

I. Every " Defender of the Country," eligible for 
Original membership, who shall file with the Secretary 



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his formal application therefor, subscribed by himself, 
shall thereupon be admitted an Original Member. 

2. No person shall be admitted an Hereditary Member 
except upon a written application subscribed by himself. 

Every application shall set forth in detail the claim 
of eligibility of the applicant and his line of descent 
from his propositus who was qualified for original 
membership, and it shall also contain a declaration 
upon honor of the Applicant, that, if admitted to mem- 
bership in this Society, he will endeavor to promote the 
purposes of its Institution, and will observe and comply 
with its Constitution and By-laws and its Regulations 
concerning its distinctive badge or insignia, and, (if he 
be a citizen of the United States,) that he will support 
the Constitution of the United States. 

The facts set forth in the application shall be duly 
verified by the oath or affirmation of the Applicant as 
true to the best of his knowledge and belief. 

Every application shall contain or be accompanied 
by proofs of eligibility to hereditary membership and 
shall be submitted to the Board of Directors, who may 
require more detailed statements concerning the eligi- 
bility or qualifications of the applicant, and shall have 
exclusive power to determine as to the same and to 
admit him to hereditary membership. 

Provided, That every application shall be subscribed 
by two members approving and recommending the 
application on their own knowledge that the Applicant 
is worthy, accompanied by their certificate on honor 
that they have duly examined his proofs of eligibility, 
and believe that he is eligible, and will, if admitted, be 
a desirable member; and 



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Provided further, That the admission of the Appli- 
cant to hereditary membership shall not be effective, 
nor shall his name be enrolled until payment by him 
of the stated initiation fee, nor unless such admission 
shall have been determined by a unanimous vote of 
the Board of Directors at a legal meeting thereof. 

3. No person shall be admitted an Honorary Mem- 
ber except by the Society at an annual or specially 
called meeting by a vote of three-fourths of the mem- 
bers present, and upon the unanimous recommendation 
of the Board of Directors as a prerequisite to a vote. 

ARTICLE VI. 

INSTITUTION. 

At every meeting the purposes of the institution will 
be fully considered, and the best measures to promote 
them adopted. 

No question, however, involving the party politics of 
the Day within the United States shall ever be dis- 
cussed or considered in any meeting of the Society, or 
of the Board of Directors, or of any committee thereof. 

ARTICLE VII. 

COMMEMORATIONS. 

The members of the Society shall, when practicable, 

hold a commemorative celebration and dine together 

every year. 

ARTICLE VIII. 

ORDER. 

The Insignia or Distinctive Badge which shall consti- 
tute the Order of the Military Society of the War of 



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1812, shall consist of a cross, pendant from the ribbon 
by a ring of gold. 

The cross shall be as follows : 

Obverse : A Maltese Cross of eight points, gold, its 
long diameter one and nine-twentieth inches, its short 
diameter one and one-twentieth inches. 

The Cross enamelled, white, edged with gold, and 
charged with a smaller cross of like proportions, 
enamelled, azure, and edged with gold, its long diam- 
eter one and two-twentieth inches. 

Upon the Cross a bald American Eagle with wings 
displayed, inverted, gold, holding in the dexter talon 
an olive branch and in the sinister talon three arrows, 
all proper ; the long diameter of the Eagle sixteen- 
twentieths of an inch and the greatest width sixteen- 
twentieths of an inch ; bearing on the breast an anchor 
placed vertically, azure, seven-twentieths of an inch in 
length, the stock three-twentieths of an inch in length ; 
the anchor supporting a rectangular shield or panel 
placed horizontally, gules, eight-twentieths of an inch 
in length and three-twentieths of an inch in width. 

On the shield or panel, the Arabic figures " 18 12," 
gold. 

The Cross between the upper two points to be can- 
toned with oak leaves and acorns, gold, projecting above 
in triangular form, four-twentieths of an inch in length 
and five-twentieths of an inch in width and attached at 
upper angle to the ring. 

Reverse: The Cross enamelled, white, edged with 
gold, and charged wdth a smaller cross of like propor- 
tions, enamelled, azure, and edged with gold as above 
described. 



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Upon each arm of the smaller cross a bald American 
Eagle, displayed, gold, the tips of the wings extending 
nearly to the points of the smaller cross. 

In the centre of the Cross, within a circle seven- 
twentieths of an inch in diameter, enamelled, azure, the 
Arabic figures " 1812," gold; environed in chief with 
an arch of eighteen stars ; in base, a sprig of laurel : 
all of gold. 

On the circle, gold, one-tenth of an inch wide, the 
legend, in relievo, ^' Pro Patria et Jure Gentiinn,'' azure. 

The ribbon shall be silk, ribbed and watered : in color 
deep red, edged with dark blue, and of a total width of 
one and one-half inches. 

The displayed length of the ribbon shall be one and 
one-half inches. 

The Order shall be worn by the members conspicu- 
ously and only on the left breast on all occasions when 
they shall assemble as such for any stated purpose or 
celebration. 

The Order may also be worn by the members on all 
occasions of ceremony in which they may participate in 
an official capacity and upon other occasions where by 
recognized usage or custom the wearing of such insignia 
is appropriate. 

The Order shall never be worn except in the manner 
and under the conditions herein prescribed nor shall 
the ribbon be displayed separately nor the Cross worn 
as an article of jewelry. 

The Treasurer of the Society shall procure and issue 
the Order to the members and shall keep a record of all 
issued by him. 

Every Order of the Society issued or delivered to a 



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member thereof shall be and continue inalienably the 
sole property of the Society and shall be held in trust 
by such member to be worn by him only in the manner 
and upon the occasions herein prescribed and shall be 
returned forthwith to the Treasurer of the Society by 
such member should he formally withdraw or resign or 
be expelled from the Society. 

In case of the decease of a member, the Order of the 
Society issued or delivered to him shall be reclaimed by 
the Treasurer and procured, without delay, from the 
custodian thereof or from the legal representatives of 
the deceased member and such Order shall continue to 
be the property of the Society but may be reissued by 
the Treasurer under the terms and conditions of this 
article, Provided, that a descendant of the deceased 
member, who may be admitted to membership in the 
Society, shall always have a prior claim to the use of 
the Order thus reclaimed and where there are more 
than one descendant in membership, the Board of 
Directors shall designate which of such descendants 
shall have the use of such Order, 





No member shall receive more than one Cross of the 
Order, unless to replace one, the loss or destruction of 
which shall first be satisfactorily established. 



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On occasions other than the meetings for any stated 
purpose or celebration, members may wear a Rosette of 
the prescribed ribbon and pattern in the upper button- 
hole of the left lapel of the coat. 

The Treasurer shall procure and issue the Rosettes 
to members. 

Such Rosettes shall not exceed fifteen millimeters in 
diameter. 




ARTICLE IX. 

SEAL. 

The seal of the Military Society of the War of 1812 
shall be one and seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, 
and shall depict the action between the frigate United 
States and H.B.M. frigate Macedonian on October 
25, 18 12: the frigate United States with spars all 
standing, colors and pennant flying, main top-sail hove 
to the mast, top gallant yards lowered down upon 
the caps, mainsail and foresail hauled up and jibs 
hauled down and in a position directly astern of the 
Macedonian and delivering a raking fire from the 
main deck battery; the frigate Macedonian in posi- 
tion on the starboard side of the United States, with 
stern towards the latter, mizzenmast, fore and main 
top mast and top-sail yards all shot away and their 
sails hanging over the sides and the colors being 
hauled down. The whole encircled by a band three- 



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eighths of an inch wide, thereon at the top eighteen 
stars of five points each to represent the several States 
then composing the United States of America, and at 
the bottom the legend, " Society of the War of 1812." 

The Secretary shall be the custodian of the seal, 
which shall be identical in every particular with this 
description. 

ARTICLE X. 

ALTERATIONS AND AMENDMENTS. 

No alteration nor amendment of the Constitution of 
this Society shall be made unless notice thereof shall 
be duly given in writing, signed by the member propos- 
ing the same, at a meeting of the Society, nor unless 
the same shall be adopted at a subsequent meeting, 
held not less than thirty days nor more than ninety 
days after such notice, by a vote of three-fourths of the 
members present. Such notice may, in like manner, 
be renewed and acted upon as herein prescribed when 
there shall have been a failure of action in the time 
limit. Notice of alteration or amendment of the Con- 
stitution may be given at one annual meeting, specifi- 
cally to be acted upon at the next annual meeting, 
provided, however, that in every case a three-fourths 
affirmative vote shall be necessary for its adoption at a 
legal meeting. 



BY-LAWS. 



SECTION I. 

INITIATION FEE, DUES, AND CONTRIBUTIONS. 

Original and Honorary members shall be exempt 
from the payment of fees or dues. 

The stated initiation fee for every Hereditary mem- 
ber shall be ten dollars, together with the cost of the 
Order procured and issued to him in trust, which cost 
shall be, from time to time, ascertained and fixed by 
the Board of Directors. 

The annual dues for Hereditary members shall be 
five dollars, which shall be payable by every Heredi- 
tary member on or before the eighth day of January 
in every year. 

The payment, at one time, of one hundred and 
fifty dollars shall thenceforth exempt the Hereditary 
member so paying from the payment of annual 
dues. 

Any Hereditary member who may contribute three 
hundred dollars to the " Permanent Fund " of the Soci- 
ety shall be exempt from the payment of annual dues, 
and this exemption shall extend in perpetuity to his 
lineal successors in hereditary membership from the 
same propositus, one at a time, who may be selected 
for such exemption by the Society. 

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SECTION 11. 

PERMANENT FUND. 

There shall be a " Permanent Fund " to be derived 
from contributions, and to remain forever to the use 
of the Society, the income only of which shall be 
expended. 

SECTION III. 

PRESIDENT. 
{Commandant .') 

The President, or in his absence the Vice-President, 
or in his absence a Chairman pro tempore, shall preside 
at all meetings of the Society and of the Board of 
Directors, and shall exercise the usual functions of a 
presiding officer, under general parliamentary rules, 
subject to an appeal to the Society, in proper cases 
under those rules. 

The President shall be, ex officio, a member of all 
committees other than the Committee on Nominations. 
He shall have power to convene the Board of Directors 
and appoint the place of such meeting when called 
by him. 

He shall also perform such other representative 
duties on behalf of the Society, either personally or by 
correspondence, as it or the Board of Directors may 
find desirable or necessary, or as customarily appertain 
to his office, and he shall enforce a strict observance 
of the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society. 

In case of his decease, resignation, neglect to serve, 
or inability from any cause to act as President, the 
duties of the office shall devolve on the Vice-President 



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until the vacancy caused by such decease, resignation, 
or neglect to serve, shall be filled, or until the inability 
shall cease. 

SECTION IV. 

SECRETARY. 

(^Adjutant.') 

The Secretary shall conduct the general correspond- 
ence of the Society and keep a record thereof. 

He shall file and keep of record all the proofs, or 
duly certified copies thereof, upon which hereditary 
membership shall be granted, together with declaration 
of adherence to the Constitution and By-Laws of the 
Society, and shall notify all qualified and accepted 
persons of their admission, and shall perform such 
other duties as the Society, or Board of Directors, or 
his office, may require of him. 

He shall have charge of the seal, certificates of incor- 
poration, historical and other documents and records 
of the Society, and shall affix the seal to every properly 
authenticated certificate of membership, of which he 
shall keep a list, and shall transmit such certificate 
without delay to the member for whom it shall be 
issued, or to his proper representative. 

He, together with the presiding officer, shall, when 
necessary, certify all acts of the Society, and, in proper 
cases, authenticate them under seal. 

He shall have charge of all printing and publications 
directed by the Society, or by the Board of Directors. 

He shall give due notice of the time and place of all 
meetings of the Society, and of the Board of Directors, 
and shall attend the same. 



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He shall keep fair and accurate records of all the 
proceedings and orders of the Society, and of the Board 
of Directors, and shall give notice to the several officers 
of all votes, orders, resolves, and proceedings of the 
Society or of the Board of Directors, affecting them or 
appertaining to their respective duties ; and, at the 
annual meeting, and oftener, if required, shall report to 
the Society the names of those persons who have been 
admitted to membership, and also the names of those 
members whose resignations or voluntary withdrawals 
have been consented to and accepted, and also the names 
of those members who have been expelled, or dropped 
for non-payment of dues, or for failure to substantiate 
claim of descent. 

In his absence from any meeting, a secretary pro 
tempore may be designated therefor by the presiding 
officer, unless there shall be an Assistant Secretary 
present to act in such capacity. 

SECTION V. 

TREASURER. 

{Qttartermaster.) 

The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and 
securities of the Society ; and as often as those funds 
shall amount to one hundred dollars, they shall be 
deposited in a National or State bank in the city of 
New York, which shall be designated by the Board 
of Directors to the credit of " The Society of the War 
of 1812," and such funds shall be drawn thence on 
the check of the Treasurer for the purposes of the 
Society only. 



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Out of these funds he shall pay such sums only as 
may be ordered by the Society, or by the Board of 
Directors, and shall perform such other duties as the 
Society, or Board of Directors, or his office, may 
require of him. 

He shall keep a true account of his receipts and 
payments, and, at each annual meeting, render the same 
to the Society, with a full statement of the financial 
condition of the Society, when a committee shall be 
appointed by the Society, if it so chooses, or else by 
the President, to audit his accounts. 

For the faithful performance of his duty as Treas- 
urer, he shall give such security as the Society, or 
Board of Directors in lieu of its action thereon, may 
from time to time require. 

SECTION VI. 

CHAPLAIN. 

The Board of Directors shall have power, in their 
discretion, to elect a Chaplain from among the members 
who shall be a regularly ordained minister of a Chris- 
tian denomination, and it shall be his duty to open and 
close all meetings of the Society with customary chap- 
laincy services, and perform such other duties as 
ordinarily appertain to such office. 

SECTION VII. 

REGISTRAR. 
( Cointnissary.') 

The Board of Directors shall have power, in their 
discretion, to elect a Registrar from among the mem- 



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bers, who shall keep a detailed record, to be deposited 
with the Secretary, of all the historical and commem- 
orative celebrations of the society; and he shall edit 
and prepare for publication such historical addresses, 
essays, papers, and other documents of an historical 
character, other than a register of members or notices 
as may be required to be published, and, at every 
annual meeting, if there shall be a necrological list 
for the society year then closing, he shall submit the 
same, with carefully prepared biographies of the de- 
ceased members. 

He shall also perform such other duties, not the 
particular function of any other officer, as may, from 
time to time, be devolved on him by the Society or 
Board of Directors. 



SECTION VIII. 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 
(^Payviaster .^ 

The Board of Directors shall have power, in their 
discretion, to elect an Assistant Secretary from among 
the members who shall assist the Secretary in the 
performance of such duties of that office as the latter 
may, from time to time, devolve upon him, and may, in 
such cases, give required notices, and certify, and 
authenticate, when necessary, any acts, documents, or 
records of the Society. 

All required notices subscribed by him, and acts, 
documents, or records of the Society, authenticated 
by him, shall have the same force and validity as if 



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subscribed or authenticated, as the case may be, by 
the Secretary. 

In case of the absence of the Secretary from any 
meeting of the Society or of the Board of Directors, 
or of his decease, resignation, neglect to serve or 
inabihty, from any cause, to act in that capacity, the 
duties of the ofifice shall devolve on the Assistant 
Secretary until the Secretary shall return, or until the 
vacancy caused by such decease, resignation, or neglect 
to serve, shall be filled, or until the inability shall 
cease. 

SECTION IX. 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 
{Coimcil of Administratwn.) 
The Board of Directors shall judge of the qualifi- 
cations of every candidate who shall make proper 
application to the Society for admission as an Heredi- 
tary member, and shall have power to admit him to 
hereditary membership therein, if found eligible and 
qualified under the Constitution of this Society. No 
person shall, however, be admitted an Hereditary mem- 
ber except by a unanimous vote of the Board of 
Directors at a legal meeting thereof. 

The Board of Directors shall also have power to 
nominate to the Society any qualified person for Honor- 
ary membership, but no such nomination shall be valid 
unless made by a unanimous vote at a lee-al meetino- 
of such Board. 

The Board of Directors may, through the Secretary, 
call special meetings of the Society at such times and 
places in the State of New York as they may see fit ; 



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and they may arrange for Commemorative Celebrations 
by the Society wherever they may deem desirable. 

They shall recommend plans to the Society for pro- 
moting its purposes, and, when practicable, may digest 
and prepare business for its meetings, and shall super- 
vise all publications issued in its name, and decide 
whether copies of records or other documents or papers 
may be furnished on request of any party, in cases not 
pertaining directly to the business of the Society, and 
the proper conduct of its affairs. 

They shall generally superintend the interests, and 
shall have the control and management of the affairs 
and funds of the Society, and may appoint any neces- 
sary committee, representation, or delegation to kindred 
or other associations, or subordinate officials. 

They shall also perform such duties as may be pre- 
scribed by the Constitution and By-Laws of the Soci- 
ety ; provided, however, that they shall at no time be 
required to take any action, nor contract any debt, 
for which they shall be jointly or severally liable. 

They shall be competent to remit the fees or dues 
of any member or members, and also to consent to 
and to accept the resignation or voluntary withdrawal 
from membership of any enrolled member of the 
Society. 

They may require the attendance of any member 
of the Society, or of any official or committee thereof, 
at any meeting, for consultation and advice, and they 
may appoint, from time to time, a committee of 
three members of the Society, to be designated a 
" Committee on Admissions," to whom any and all 
applications for hereditary membership may be re- 



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ferred for preliminary investigation as to eligibility 
and qualifications, and for careful and exhaustive re- 
port certified to on honor by the members of such 
committee. 

The Board of Directors shall meet as often as they 
may desire, or at the call of the President, or upon 
the written request of any three members of the same, 
addressed to the Secretary. 

A majority of the Board of Directors shall be a 
quorum to constitute a legal meeting for the trans- 
action of business. 

At every annual meeting, and at such other times as 
may be required by the Society, they shall submit a 
general report of their proceedings during the period 
which may have intervened since their last report. 

SECTION X. 

INCORPORATION. 

The Society shall be duly incorporated as a body 
politic and corporate under the laws of the State of 
New York, with its principal office in the City of New 

York. 

The Board of Directors, or a majority of them, shall, 
in the month of December in every year, make and file 
in the office of the Clerk of the City and County of 
New York, in the State of New York, a certificate under 
their hands, stating the names of the Directors and 
Officers of the society, with an inventory. of the property, 
effects, and liabilities of the Society, with an affidavit 
of the truth of such certificate and inventory, and an 
affidavit that such Institution has not been engaged 



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directly or indirectly in any other business than such as 
is set forth in the original certificate on file. 

The amendment of the statute of the State of New 
York, at any time, under which the foregoing certificate 
and affidavit and the filing thereof are required, shall 
ipso facto amend this section accordingly. 

[This section amended by Act of the Legislature of 
the State of New York, approved March 9, 1895.] 

SECTION XL 

NUMBER OF DIRECTORS, 

The number of Directors may, at any time, be in- 
creased by the Board of Directors to not more than 
twenty, or diminished to not less than five, and such 
Board shall, in case of increase, name the additional 
directors, and, in case of reduction in their number, 
shall name the directors to continue as such, and 
the persons so named shall be directors until a new 
election shall be had. In case of increase, the Board of 
Directors shall divide the whole number thus increased 
into classes, so that not less than one-fourth of their 
number shall be elected annually by the Society. 

No action, however, of the Directors changing the 
number thereof shall be valid until ratified by a majority 
of the members of the Society at a meeting called for 
the purpose, nor until the certificate and transcript 
thereof, required by law by reason of such change of 
number, shall be duly filed as provided by the law under 
which this Society shall be incorporated. 

Any amendment of such statute in any of these re- 
quirements shall ipso facto amend this section. 



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Upon the due incorporation of this Institution, nine 
qualified persons shall be designated as the Board of 
Directors, who shall divide themselves into classes, so 
that not less than one-fourth of their number shall be 
elected annually. 

Nine shall thenceforth continue to be the number of 
Directors, unless such number shall be increased or 
diminished as herein provided. 

SECTION XII. 

VACANCIES AND TERMS OF OFFICE. 

Whenever an office in this Society shall become 
vacant by reason of the decease, resignation, or neglect 
to serve of the member elected thereto, or from other 
cause, the Board of Directors may fill the vacancy for 
the unexpired term from among their own number or 
from the members at large, as the case may be. 

Whenever an officer shall be suspended or be unable 
properly to perform his duties by reason of absence, 
sickness, or other cause, the Board of Directors shall 
have power to appoint a member to such office pro 
tempore, who shall act in such capacity^ until the ina- 
bility due to suspension, absence, sickness, or other 
cause shall cease. 

Provided, Jioivevcr, That the office of President or 
Secretary shall not thus be filled by the Board of 
Directors either permanently or temporarily, when 
there shall be a Vice-President or Assistant Secretary 
to enter upon the duties of those offices respectively. 

In like manner, the Board of Directors may supply 
vacancies among its members, under the same condi- 



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tions and limitations ; and in case any member thereof 
shall be absent from three consecutive meetings of the 
same, held at intervals of not less than three weeks 
between each of said meetings, his place therein may 
be declared vacant by the Board of Directors and filled 
by an appointment of a member of the Society thereto, 
which appointment shall continue in force for the resi- 
due of the term, as a director, of the member whose 
place has thus been declared vacant, and until the 
Society shall elect a successor. 

The Board of Directors may also fill vacancies in 
committees due to death, resignation, neglect to serve, 
absence, sickness, or other cause, or may, in particular 
cases, devolve such power of filling vacancies upon the 
President of the Society. 

Subject to the provisions of this section, all Officers 
of the Society and the members of the Board of Direc- 
tors shall, from the time of their election or appoint- 
ment, continue in their respective offices and places 
until the next annual meeting, and until their respec- 
tive successors shall be duly chosen. 

SECTION XIII. 

RESIGNATION. 

No resignation nor voluntary withdrawal from mem- 
bership of any member enrolled in this Society shall 
become effective as a release from the obligations 
thereof, unless consented to and accepted by the Board 
of Directors. 

Upon such consent and acceptance all and every 
right, title, and interest of the person whose member- 



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ship is so determined, in or to this Society, or in or to 
its property or effects by reason of his former mem- 
bership therein, shall cease and be forever at an end. 



SECTION XIV. 

DISQUALIFICATION. 

No person who may be enrolled as an Hereditary 
member in this Society, shall be permitted to continue in 
membership where the proofs of claim of eligibility by 
descent shall be found to be defective and insufficient 
to substantiate such claim, or not properly authenticated. 

The Society, or the Board of Directors, may, at any 
time after thirty days' notice to such person to properly 
substantiate or authenticate his claim, require the Sec- 
retary, if such person shall have failed or neglected 
to comply satisfactorily with such notice, to erase his 
name from the list of members, and such person shall 
thereupon cease to be a member as fully to all intents 
and purposes as if he had resigned his membership 
and such resignation had been consented to and ac- 
cepted by the Board of Directors. 

Where the Board of Directors shall direct the eras- 
ure of a person's name for a cause comprehended 
under this section, such person shall have a right of 
appeal to the next annual meeting of the Society ; but 
he shall not be restored to membership unless by an 
affirmative vote of three-fourths of the members pres- 
ent on that occasion, or at a subsequent meeting to 
which the consideration of the appeal may have been 
specifically postponed. 



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SECTION XV. 

EXPULSION AND SUSPENSION. 

The Board of Directors shall have power to expel 
any enrolled member of this Society, who, by a con- 
duct inconsistent with a gentleman and a man of 
honor, or by an opposition to the interests of the 
community in general or of this Society in particular, 
may render himself unworthy to continue a member, 
or who shall persistently transgress, or, without good 
excuse, wilfully neglect or fail in the performance of 
any obligation enjoined by the Constitution or By-Laws 
or any standing Rule of this Society. 

Provided, That such member shall have received at 
least ten days' notice of the complaint preferred against 
him under this section, and of the time and place for 
hearing the same, and have been thereby afforded an 
opportunity to be heard in person. 

Whenever the cause of expulsion shall not have 
involved turpitude nor moral unworthiness, any mem- 
ber thus expelled may, upon the unanimous recom- 
mendation of the Board of Directors, but not otherwise, 
be restored to membership by the Society at any meet- 
ing by an affirmative vote of three-fourths of the mem- 
bers present. 

The Board of Directors shall also have power to 
drop from the Roll the name of any Hereditary mem- 
ber of the Society who shall be at least two years in 
arrears in the payment of dues, and who, on notice to 
pay the same, shall fail and neglect to do so within 
ten days thereafter, and upon being thus dropped his 
membership shall cease and determine ; but he may 



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be restored to membership at any time by the Board 
of Directors on his application therefor, and upon 
payment by him of all such arrears and of the annual 
dues from the date when he was dropped to the date 
of his restoration. 

The Board of Directors may also suspend any officer 
from the performance of his duties, for cause ; which 
proceeding must be reported to the Society and acted 
upon by it within thirty days, either by rescission of 
the suspension, or removal of the suspended officer 
from office, or otherwise the suspension shall cease. 

Whenever a member shall be expelled or dropped 
from the Roll under the provisions of this section, all 
and every right, title, and interest of the person whose 
membership is so determined, in or to this Society, or 
in or to its property or effects by reason of his former 
membership therein, shall cease and be at an end. 

SECTION XVI. 

RECOMMENDATION OF CANDIDATES. 

No member shall approve and subscribe an applica- 
tion for hereditary membership in this Society, nor 
recommend the applicant for admission, unless he 
shall knoiv him to be zvortJiy, and shall have satisfied 
himself by due examination of proofs that such appli- 
cant is eligible and will, if admitted, be a desirable 
member. 

Any member who may thus approve and recommend 
an application shall be accountable therefor, and may 
be required by the Board of Directors to give full 
information in relation thereto. 



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SECTION XVII. 

NOMINATING COMMITTEE. 

Elections. 

The Society may, at the annual meeting in any year, 
choose a Nominating Committee of not less than three, 
nor more than nine members, to nominate members 
for election to the vacancies which may arise at the 
succeeding annual meeting. 

In case the Society shall not choose such a 
committee, the President shall, prior to every an- 
nual meeting, appoint such a Nominating Committee 
from among the members longest enrolled as such, 
who may consent to serve on such committee, ex- 
clusive of Officers or members of the Board of Direc- 
tors. 

The Nominating Committee shall select and nominate 
a ticket of names of members to fill vacancies in the 
Board of Directors at the ensuing annual meeting due 
to expiration of terms of service as such, and accidental 
vacancies which may not then have been filled by the 
Board of Directors. 

The ticket prepared by the Nominating Committee 
may be printed and shall be distributed as the " regu- 
lar ticket" at the ensuing election, but such action 
shall not preclude any member from making nomina- 
tions different from those thus recommended. 

All elections of Directors by the Society shall be 
by ballot, and a majority of the ballots given for a 
Director shall constitute a choice thereof ; but, if on 
the first ballot, no member shall receive such a 



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majority, then a further balloting, in such case, shall 
take place then and there, or on a specially adjourned 
meeting, in which a plurality of votes given shall de- 
termine the choice therefor. 

SECTION XVIII. 

DECEASE OF MEMBERS. 

The membership of any person in this Society shall 
be determined by his decease, and all and every right, 
title, and interest of the person whose membership is so 
determined in or to this Society, or in or to its property 
and effects by reason of his former membership therein, 
shall cease and be forever at an end. 

Upon the decease of anj/ member residing within the 
State of New York, notice thereof, and of the time and 
place of the funeral, shall be given by the Secretary by 
publication, and it shall thereupon become the duty of 
the members, when practicable, to attend the obse- 
quies. 

Any member, upon being informed of the decease of 
a member, shall make it his duty to see that the Secre- 
tary is promptly notified of the fact, which fact shall 
also, in due time, be communicated to the Society. 

SECTION XIX. 

CERTIFICATE OF MEMBERSHIP. 

Every member shall be entitled to receive a certificate 
of membership, which shall be authenticated by the 
President and Secretary of the Society, and to which 
the seal of this Military Society shall be affixed. 



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The certificate shall be in form following : 

"The Society of the War of 1812. 

" Be it known, That has been duly 

admitted a member of this Institution in right of the services 

of in the (Army 

or Navy or Privateer service,) of the United States during the 
War of 18 1 2, in the defence of American Sovereignty and 
Independence against hostile encroachments and in vindica- 
tion of the Laws of Nations. 

" Dated at the City of New York, this day 

of in the year hundred 

(l- s.) ^j^j _ g^j-,^ Qf ^j^g Independence of 

the United States the 



" President and Commandant ^ 



" Secretary and Adjutant.'''' 
SECTION XX. 

MARSHAL. 

The President of the Society may, from time to time, 
in his discretion, designate a member to act, under his 
direction, as Marshal of the Society in its Commemora- 
tive celebrations, parades, and other meetings, and to 
perform such duties as usually appertain to such a 
position. 

SECTION XXI. 

SERVICE OF NOTICES. 

It shall be the duty of every member to inform the 
Secretary, by written communication, of his place of 
residence and of any change thereof, and of his post- 
office address. 



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Service of any notice under the Constitution or By- 
Laws of this Society upon any member thereof, ad- 
dressed to him at his last recorded place of residence 
or post-office address, and forwarded by United States 
mail, shall be deemed sufficient service of such notice. 

SECTION XXII. 

ANNUAL AND SPECIAL MEETINGS. 

The Society shall hold an annual meeting in the City 
of New York on the eighth day of January in every 
year, except when such date shall fall on Sunday, in 
which case the meeting shall be held on the following 
day. 

Unless the hour and place of meeting in said city 
shall have been fixed by the Society at the last previous 
meeting thereof, the Board of Directors shall designate 
such hour and place. 

The annual meeting shall be for the election of 
directors and the transaction of general business con- 
cerning the Society which it may be competent to 
attend to. 

During any election the regular order of business 
may be proceeded with. 

Special meetings of the Society shall be held by direc- 
tion of the Board of Directors, or upon the written 
request of not less than thirty members of the Society, 
at such time and place as the Board of Directors may 
direct. 

At such special meeting no business shall be trans- 
acted except such as shall be specified in the notice 
therefor. 



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One week's notice of time and place of annual or 
special meetings shall be given by the Secretary by 
mailing through the United States Post-Office in the 
City of New York a written or printed notice to every 
member of the Society. 

In lieu of such notice by mail, the publication thereof 
once a week for a period of three weeks in two daily 
newspapers published in the City of New York, shall 
be deemed sufficient notice. 

The Society may, from time to time, by resolve, at 
an annual meeting, fix the number of members who 
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business 
in future meetings, and in like manner alter the number 
at any annual meeting. 

In the absence of such action by the Society, the 
Board of Directors may, by resolve, designate the 
number which shall constitute a quorum until action 
thereon by the Society at an annual meeting. 

The majority of the number, thus fixed from time to 
time as a quorum for business at any meeting, shall be 
deemed and taken to be a majority of the members of 
the Society in any meeting for any lawful purpose. 

SECTION XXIII. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

The meetings of the Society for business shall be 
generally conducted according to Parliamentary Law, 
and the following Order of Business shall, as far as the 
same may be applicable, be followed, unless the Society 
shall direct differently at such meetings. 

I. Meeting called to order by presiding officer, and 
Roll call. 



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2. Prayer by the Chaplain. 

3. Reading of minutes of prior meetings not previously 

acted upon. 

4. Election of Directors, when required. 

5. Communications from, or report of, Board of Direct- 

ors. 

6. Reports of Officers. 

7. Reports of special committees. 

8. Unfinished business. 

9. Written communications requiring the action of 

the Society. 

10. Specially noticed business. 

11. Notices of motion for subsequent meeting, includ- 

ing notices of alteration or amendment. 

12. Miscellaneous business. 

13. Reading of the preamble to the Constitution of the 

Society. 

14. Closing prayer by the Chaplain. 

SECTION XXIV. 

ALTERATIONS AND AMENDMENTS. 

No alteration nor amendment of the By-Laws of this 
Society shall be made unless notice thereof shall be 
duly given in writing, signed by the member proposing 
the same, at a meeting of the Society, nor unless the 
same shall be adopted at a subsequent meeting, held 
not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days after 
such notice, by a vote of three-fourths of the members 
present. Such notice may, in like manner, be renewed 
and acted upon as herein prescribed when there shall 
have been a failure of action in the time limit. 



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Notice of alteration or amendment of the By-Laws 
may be given at one annual meeting specifically to 
be acted upon at the next annual meeting ; provided, 
however, that in every case a three-fourths affirmative 
vote shall be necessary for its adoption at a legal 
meeting. 



We, the laidersigned, who served in the " War of 
Eighteen Hundred and Twelve" in defence of our 
Country against hostile encroachments on its rights, 
interests, and territorial jurisdiction, and in defence of 
certain great principles of the Law of Nations, do 
hereby, for Ourselves and for our Associate Defenders 
of the Country, and such other persons as may be 
hereafter admitted members, institute and re-establish 
this Military Society, or Order, on a more enduring 
basis, under its title of " The Society of the War of 
Eighteen Hundred and Twelve," and we do, therefore, 
hereby make, establish, ratify, and approve the fore- 
going Constitution and By-Laws for the said Military 
Society. 

/// testimony whereof. We have hereunto set our 
hands and seals this tenth day of September, in the 
year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety, and 
of the Independence of the United States of America 
the one hundred and fourteenth, and of the forma- 
tion of said Society the sixty-fifth. 



'Sfaraljam SJallu, (l.s.) 



Veteran Corps 



©anid Mollabcr, (l.s.) \ of Artillery 

?i?fnrg i«orriS, (l.s.) j ^nd Society 

(Hjomas fH. Sturtcbant, (l.s.) j ^^'^^^/^^i^. 



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An Act to amend the incorporation of " The Society of the 
War of Eighteen Hundred and Twelve." 

T/ie People of the State of Nezu York, represetited in Sen- 
ate and AsseDiblj, do enact as follozus : 

Section i. Michael Moore and Thomas Morgan 
Sturtevant, of the War of Eighteen Hundred and 
Twelve ; Morgan Dix, Asa Bird Gardiner, Gouverneur 
Mather Smith, James Mortimer Montgomery, Henry 
Chauncey, Jr., David Banks and Frederic Gallatin, and 
their successors, constituting the Council of Administra- 
tion, or Board of Directors, of " The Veteran Corps of 
Artillery" of that war, incorporated by surviving vet- 
eran members thereof on January eight, eighteen hun- 
dred and ninety-two, as a Military Society, under 
Chapter Two Hundred and Sixty-Seven of the Laws of 
Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-Five, and amendatory 
acts, by the title of " The Society of the War of Eighteen 
Hundred and Twelve," may, for the purpose of affect- 
ing one of the expressed objects of the incorporation of 
said Corps, appoint, from time to time, delegates there- 
from to unite with delegates from any Military Society 
or Societies formed in other States by men who served 
in the armies and navies of the United States in that 
war, in instituting a National or General Society of the 
War of Eighteen Hundred and Twelve for patriotic and 
commemorative purposes, not inconsistent with the Con- 
stitution and laws of the United States or this State ; 
and the said Veteran Corps shall, notwithstanding its 
incorporation as a body politic as aforesaid, be allowed 
to retain its accustomed privileges, subject, nevertheless, 
to all other duties required by law. 



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§ 2. In addition to the burial lots dedicated to its use 
in eighteen hundred and fifty-four, for burial of de- 
ceased veteran members of the War of Eighteen Hun- 
dred and Twelve, the said Corps may procure and hold 
such other real estate as may be required for interment 
of its deceased members and erection of memorials 
thereon, and such property shall be exempt from taxa- 
tion and other liabilities in the same manner as other 
cemetery lands while used for cemetery purposes and no 
longer. 

§ 3. Membership in said Corps shall be restricted and 
limited to those persons of full age, qualified by the Reg- 
ulations, in form of Constitution and By-Laws, adopted 
therefor by its Veteran Members of date September 
ten, eighteen hundred and ninety. The Officers thereof, 
as conducive to the improvement of said Organization, 
shall be chosen or appointed in the mode and at the 
times provided in said Regulations, and the tenure of 
office and removal therefrom shall be as therein pre- 
scribed, and every such Officer shall, within fifteen days 
after his election or appointment, take and subscribe the 
Constitutional oath of office or all rights thereunder shall 
cease and determine and a vacancy be thereby created 
to be filled by a new election or appointment. 

§ 4. In lieu of the requirements of Section Nine of 
Chapter Two Hundred and Sixty-Seven of the Laws of 
Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-Five, a report, verified 
by the affidavit of the President, as Commandant, and 
Secretary, as Adjutant, or by any two Officers of said 
Corps, shall be made and filed in the office of the Ad- 
jutant-General of this State within thirty days after the 
passage of this act, and in the month of January in every 



89 

succeeding year, containing the required inventory as 
to its military and other property and effects, together 
with a Roster of the Members and their respective resi- 
dences, and certifying the Officers and Council of Ad- 
ministration chosen or appointed for the same, and said 
Corps shall be subject to the visitation and inspection 
of the Adjutant-General or officer deputed by him, and 
may, for the purposes of its original formation, continue 
to be known by its said former title. 

§ 5. The military fund of said Corps shall be under 
the control and management of the Board of Officers, 
which shall consist of the Commandant, Vice-President 
as Vice-Commandant; Adjutant, Treasurer, as Quarter- 
master, chosen by the Council of Administration from 
their own number, together with the Chaplain, Assist- 
ant Secretary, as Paymaster ; Registrar, as Commissary, 
and Surgeon, chosen by said Council from among the 
members of the Corps, and the incorporation of said 
Independent Organization as a body politic for certain 
expressed purposes shall not abridge nor make void 
the privileges, immunities, exemptions or liabilities pre- 
viously conferred or imposed on the same under Section 
One Thousand Six Hundred and Forty-One, Revised 
Statutes of the United States, and Sections Seventy- 
Five, Seventy-Seven, One Hundred and Thirty-Three, 
One Hundred and Forty-Three and One Hundred and 
Forty-Five of Chapter Two Hundred and Ninety-Nine 
of the Laws of Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-Three, 
and acts amendatory thereof. 

§ 6. This act shall take effect immediately. 

\^Lazvs of New Vor^, Chapter 91, approved MarcJi 9, 
1895.] 



ROSTER. 



COMMANDANTS 

OF 

THE VETERAN CORPS OF ARTILLERY. 

1790-1848. 

1790. Mr. John Delamater. 

Corporal in Capt. Abraham Westfall's Co., ist Regt. 
N. Y. Levies (Lieut. Col. Comdt. Albert Pawling), in 
U. S. Service, November i, 1779, to December 25, 
1779 ; April to November 30, 1780 ; April to December 
25, 1 78 1. Hospital Paymaster, Cont'l Hospital Dept., 
1782-1783. 

1809. Mr. John McLean. 

Private in Capt. Philip Dubois Bevier's Co., 5th Regt. 
N. Y. Cont'l Lif'y (Col. Lewis Dubois), December 
I, 1776, and honorably discharged December 1, 1779. 
Appointed 2d Lieut, in Capt. Nathaniel Scribner's Co. 
of Col. Henry Luddington's Regt. N. Y. Militia Inf'y, 
June 29, 1780, and in TJ. S. Service July and August, 
1 78 1. Commissary of Military Stores, S. N. Y. 1801 to 
March, 181 3. 

181 3. Mr. George Warren Chapman, m.d. 

Artificer in Capt. Isaac Coren's Co., Cont'l Corps 
Artillery Artificers, May 30, 1778, and appointed 
Corporal same day. Promoted to 2d Serg. in Novem- 
ber, 1780, and honorably discharged January i, 1781. 

1845. Hon. John B. Scott. 

Captain 41st Regt. U. S. Inf'y, September 30, 1813. 
N. Y. State Senator, 1841-1845. Recorder of the 
City of New York, 1 846-1 848. 

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PRESIDENTS AND COMMANDANTS 

OF 

THE MILITARY SOCIETY OF THE WAR OF 1812, 

BEFORE AND AFTER CONSOLIDATION WITH 

THE VETERAN CORPS OF ARTILLERY 

IN 

1848. 

1826. Colonel Robert Bos^ardus. 
41st Regt. U. S. Inf'y. 

1842. Brigadier-General Robert Swartwout, 
Quartermaster-General U. S. Army. 

1848. Captain John B. Scott, 

41st Regt. U. S. Inf'y. 

185 1. Mr. Nicholas Hai^ht, 

Sergt. in Major Comdt. John W. Forbes' Battl. 
Art'y, I St Division N. Y. State Militia, 18 14. 

1855. Bvt. Major Donald Eraser, 
8th Regt. U. S. Inf'y. 

1 86 1. Captain John Sanders Van Rensselaer, 

Brigade Quartermaster 2d Division N. Y. De- 
tached Vol. Militia, 1812-1813. 

1869. Mr. Henry Raymond, 

Sergt. 2d Regt. N. Y. State Art'y, 1812-1S13 
and 1814. 

1879. Mr. Abraham Dally, Jr., 

Corporal nth Regt. N. Y. State Art'y, 1814- 
1815. 

1890. The Reverend Morgan Dix, s.t.d., d.c.l. 

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VICE-PRESIDENTS 



AND 



VICE-COMMANDANTS. 



1826. Bvt. Brig.-General Joseph Gardner Swift, 

LL.D., 

Chief U. S. Corps of Engineers. 

1827. Colonel Gilbert Christian Russell, 

3d Regt. U. S. Inf'y. 

1828. Brig.-General Jacob Morton, a.m., 

istBrig. N. Y. State Art'y, 1812 and 1814. 

1837. Lieut.-Colonel Comdt. Daniel Dodge, 

I St Regt. Inf'y, 3d Brig, ist Division N. Y. 
State Militia, 18 14. 

1842. Captain John B. Scott, 
41st Regt. U. S. Inf'y. 

1849. Mr. Nicholas Haight, 

Sergeant in Major Comdt. John W. Forbes' 
Battl. Art'y, ist Division N. Y. State Mihtia, 
1814. 

1 85 1. Bvt. Major Donald Eraser, 
8th Regt. U. S. Inf'y. 

1855. Captain John Sanders Van Rensselaer, 

Brigade Quartermaster, 2d Division N. Y. De- 
tached Vol. Militia, i Si 2-18 13. 
92 



93 

1 86 1. Captain William Buttre, 

Major Comdt. John W. Forbes' Battl. Art'y, ist 
Division N. Y. State Militia, 1814. 

1865. Major-General John Adams Dix, ll.d., 

U. S. Vols. 

2d Lieut. U. S. Corps of Art'y. 

1867. Mr. Henry Raymond, 

Sergeant 2d Regt. N. Y. State Art'y, 1812-1813, 
and 1814. 

1869. Captain Benjamin Wood, 
27th Regt. U. S. Inf'y. 

1876. ist Lieutenant Abraham Quackenbush, 
6th Regt. U. S. Inf'y. 

1878. Mr. Abraham Dally, Jr., 

Corporal nth Regt. N. Y. State Art'y, 1814- 
1815. 

1879. Hon. Thurlow Weed, 

Private in Lieut. Col. Comdt. Elijah H. Met- 
calf's Regt. Art'y N. Y. Vol. Militia, 1813. 

1883. Captain Piatt Adams, 

5th Regt. N. Y. State Vol. Inf'y, 1814. 

1888. Mr. Charles Barclay Tappen, 

Sergeant 2d Regt. Inf'y, 3d Brig, ist Division 
N. Y. State Militia, 1814. 

1890. Hon. Asa Bird Gardiner, ll.d. 



SECRETARIES AND ADJUTANTS. 



1826. Captain Mordecai Myers, a.b., 
13th Regt. U. S. Inf'y. 

1836. Major Charles Graham, a.b., 

Brigade Major and Inspector 3d Brig. Inf'y, 
ist Division N. Y. State Militia, 18 14. 

1839. Captain John Burrowes, 

I St Regt. U. S. Vol. Inf'y. 

1846. Lieutenant Henry M. Mead, 

15 th Regt. U. S. Inf'y. 

1850. Lieutenant Henry Arcularius, 

Adjutant Battl. Horse Art'y, ist Division N. Y. 
State Militia, 1814. 

1855. Mr. Isaac M. Phyffe, 

Private ist Regt. Inf'y, loth Brig, ist Division 
N. Y. State Militia, 18 14. 

1858. Mr. Abraham Dally, Jr., 

Corporal nth Regt. N. Y. State Art'y, 18 14- 

1815. 

1878. Lieutenant Martin W. Brett, 
ist Regt. U. S. Vol. Inf'y. 

1880. Lieutenant Charles Oakley, 

2d Regt. Inf'y, loth Brig, ist Division N. Y. 
State Militia, 18 14. 

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1885. Mr. George Crygier, 

Musician Veteran Corps of xA.rtillery, 1814. 

1889. Mr. Henry Morris, 

Private N. Y. Vol. Sea Fencibles, 1814-1S15. 

1890. Mr. Appleton Morgan, ll.d. 
1892. Mr. Henry Chauncey, Jr. 



TREASURERS 



AND 



QUARTERMASTERS. 



1826. Major Clarkson Crolius, 
27th Regt. U. S. Inf'y. 

1844. Captain Charles Humphrey, 
41st Regt. U. S. Inf'y. 

185 1. Major Bernard Hart, 

Division Quartermaster ist Division N. Y. State 
Militia, 1814. 

1856. Major Bartholomew de la Pierre, 

Aide-de-Camp to Major General Peter Buell 
Porter, Com'd'g Detached Division N. Y. 
Vols., 1814. 

1866. Captain Gouverneur S. Bibby, 
27th Regt. U. S. Inf'y. 

1872. Captain Thomas Machin, 
29th Regt. U. S. Inf'y. 

1876. Lieutenant Cotton Ward, 
34th Regt. U. S. Inf'y. 

1878. Ensign William L. Morris, 

ist Regt. Infy, loth Brig, ist Division N. Y. 
State Militia, 1814. 
96 



97 

1 88 1. Mr. Robert W. Ryckman, 

Private 2(1 Regt. Inf'y, loth Brig, ist Division 

N. Y. State Militia, 1814. 

1886. Midshipman Joseph B. Nones, 
U. S. Navy. 

1888. Mr. Gardiner Robert Lillibridge, 

Landsman U. S. Letter of Marque " Rapid," 
1813; Private ist Regt. Inf'y, 3d Brig, ist 
Division N. Y. State Militia, 1814. 

1890. Mr. Gouverneur Mather Smith, m.d. 



ASSISTANT SECRETARIES 



AND 



PAYMASTERS. 



1826. Major George Howard, 

I St Regt. U. S. Infy. 

1 83 1. Captain William D. Lawrence 
13th Regt. U. S. Infy. 

1834. Lieutenant James Boardman, 
26th Regt. U. S. Infy. 

1 84 1. Lieutenant Henry M. Mead, 

15th Regt. U. S. Infy. 

1846. Lieutenant Henry Arcularius, 

Adjutant Battl. Horse Art'y, ist Division N. Y. 
State Militia, 1814. 

1850. Mr. Abraham Dally, Jr., 

Corporal nth Regt. N. Y. State Art'y, 18 14- 
1815. 

1853. Lieutenant William B. Read, 

3d Regt. U. S. Art'y. 

1 86 1. Mr. William H. Brown, 

Sergt. in Captain Walter Hunt's Co. Md. Mi- 
litia Infy, attached to nth Brig. Md. Militia, 
1814. 

98 



99 

1876. Mr. Edward N. Duryea, 

Private ist Regt. InVy, 3d Brig, ist Division 
N. Y. State Militia, 1814. 

1884. Mr. Elijah P. Jenks, 

Private 3d Regt. Infy, 3d Brig, ist Division 
N. Y. State Militia, 1814. 

1888. Mr. Jacques Cortelyou, 

Private 64th Battl. Infy (Major Comdt. Francis 
Titus), N. Y. State Militia, 18 14. 

1890. Mr. Robert Allen Center. 

1893. Mr. Charles Isham, a.b. 



CHAPLAINS. 



1826. The Reverend Peter J. Van Pelt, a.m., d.d., 

Chaplain U. S. Army, Hd. Qrs. 3d Military 
District, 1813-1815. 

1862. The Reverend Orin Abbott, 

Private 19th Regt. N. Y, Detached Militia 
Infy, 181 2. 

1863. The Reverend Gardiner Spring, d.d., ll.d., 

Chaplain of Major Comdt. Daniel D. Smith's 
Battl. Art'y, ist Division N. Y. State Militia, 
1814. 

1893. The Reverend Alexander Hamilton, Jr., b.d. 

1895. The Reverend Frank Landon Humphreys, 

S.T.D. 



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SURGEONS. 



1826. Asst. Surgeon Zebulon Seaman, m.d., 

Asst. Surg, of Lieut. Col. Comdt. Danl. Bedell's 
Regt. Infy, ist Division N. Y. State Militia, 
1814. 

1840. Hospital Surgeon Samuel Ackerly, a.m., 

M.D., 

U. S. Army. 

1850. Mr. Henry H. Porter, m.d., 

Private in Capt. Daniel F. Smith's Co. of Major 
Comdt. Daniel E. Dunscomb's Battl. Art'y, 
I St Division N. Y. State Militia, 1S14. 

1858. Surgeon Benjamin R. Robson, m.d., 

Surgeon ist Regt. Infy, 3d Brig, ist Division 
N. Y. State Militia, 18 14. 

1879. Surgeon William Henry Wilson, m.d., 
45th Regt. U. S. Infy. 

1893. Major John Van Rensselaer Hoff, m.d., 
Surgeon U. S. Army. 



lOI 



INSPECTOR. 



The Adjutant-General of the State of New York. 



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OFFICERS. 
1895. 

*o* 

President and Commandant : 

Morgan Dix, s.t.d., d.c.l. 

Vice-President and Vice-Commandant: 
Asa Bird Gardiner, ll.d. 

Secretary and Adjutant : 

Henry Chauncey, Jr., 

267 Fifth /Vvenue, New York City. 

Treasurer and Quartermaster : 

Gouverneur Mather Smith, m.d., 

14 East 17th Street, New York City. 



Chaplain 



Surgeon 



Frank Landon Humphreys, s.t.d. 



John Van Rensselaer Hoff, m.d. 



Assistant Secretary and Paymaster: 

Charles Isham, 

33 Wall Street, New York City. 

Registrar and Commissary : 

Morris Patterson Ferris, 

38 Park Row. New York City. 

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COUNCIL OF ADMINISTRATION, 

1895. 



(fTljomas fHorgan $turtrbant. 
Morgan Dix. 
Asa Bird Gardiner. 
Gouverneur Mather Smith. 
James Mortimer Montgomery. 
Henry Chauncey, Jr. 
David Banks. 

Frederic Gallatin. 
104 



ORIGINAL MEMBERS. 



55lias IS.' Cobcnljoben, 

Petries Corners, N. Y. 

Entered U. S. Service at Lom'ille, N. Y. March i, 1813, 
as a Private in Captain Cyrus Trowbridge's Co. 
loist Regt. N. Y. Militia Inf'y, and served at 
Sackett's Harbor during an apprehended attack 
from Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, until 
honorably discharged by reason of expiration of 
term of service, at Brown Mill, N. Y., March 20, 
1813. 

Re-entered U. S. Service in Captain Safford's 
Co., same Regt., May 28, 181 3, and served in the 
battle of Sackett's Harbor, May 29, 1813. Honor- 
ably discharged with his Co. June 29, 18 13. 

pfiram (ITronk, 

Leila, N. Y. 
Entered U. S. Service at Western, N. Y., August 2, 1814, 
as a Private in Captain Edmund Fuller's Co. 157th 
Regt. N. Y. Militia Inf'y, and served at Sackett's 
Harbor until honorably discharged by reason of 
expiration of enHstment, November 16, 1814. 

iHtcjjatl fHoore, 

2d Lieutenant United States Army, retired. 

20 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Enhsted at the city of New York April 30, 18 12, 
as a Musician in Captain John Sproull's Co. 
13th Regt. U. S. Inf'y, and joined his regt. at 
Greenbush, N. Y. 

1 The initial letter " E " was merely adopted to distinguish him from 
his father. 

105 



io6 

Participated in the assault and capture of Fort 
George, U. C, May 27, 181 3, by tiie combined 
U. S. Land and Naval forces under Major-General 
Henry Dearborn and Commodore Isaac Chaun- 
cey, and in subsequent pursuit of the enemy. 

Served in the battle of Stony Creek, U. C, June 
6, 1813. 

Embarked at Fort George October 2, 1813, under 
convoy of Commodore Chauncey's squadron for 
Sackett's Harbor, and then re-embarked, October 
17, 1813, in batteaux, in Major-General James 
Wilkinson's army, for its movement down the St. 
Lawrence. 

Served in the Battle of Chrysler's Fields, U. C, 
November 11, 18 13, and in same month went into 
winter quarters at French Mills. 

Marched, in February, 18 14, to Plattsburg, N. Y., 
and, on July 31, 1814, proceeded with his regiment, 
in boats, from Cumberland Head to Chazy landing, 
and then marched to Champlain, but in August, 
1814, in the command of Major-General George 
Izard, proceeded with his regiment via Lake George, 
Schenectady, and the Mohawk Valley, to Sackett's 
Harbor, where he arrived September 16, 18 14, and 
served in the defence of that place during the 
remainder of the war. 

Retained in service at the Peace of 18 15. 

Ilenrn IHorris, 

Por (Chester, N. Y. 

Entered U. S. Service at Greenwich Village, New York 
City, September 3, 1814, as a Private in Captain 
James Breath's Co. of the N. Y. Battalion of Sea 
Fencibles under Major Comdt. P. Fowler, and 
served in the defences of New York Harbor, at 
Block House No. 3, on Long Island, until honor- 
ably discharged with his Co. at the City of New 
York, January 3, 181 5. 



107 

Efjomas iHorrjan cSturtebaiit, 

Madison, N. J. 
Entered U. S. Service at the City of New York, Septem- 
ber 2, 1 8 14, as a Private in Captain George Ash- 
bridge's Co. of the BattaHon of N. Y. State Art'y, 
under Major Comdt. John W. Forbes, and served 
in the defences of New York Harbor, until honora- 
bly discharged with his Co. at the City of New 
York, December 3, 18 14. 



HEREDITARY MEMBERS. 



Chief Engineer Louis Joseph Allen, 

United States Navy. 

U.S.S. " Chicago,'' care of Navy Department, Washington, B.C. 

Grandsoji of Jacob Strembeck, Jr. (i 792-1827) ; 
Private in Capt. Jacob H. Fisler's Independent 
Co. "Junior Artillerists," in U. S. Service, March 
23, 1813-April 7, 1813. 

Great- Grandson of Jacob Strembeck, Sr. (175 5-1 841) ; 
Private in Capt. Henry Meyer's Co. " Philadelphia 
Blues," 4th Regt. Penn. Detached Militia Inf'y 
(Col. Lewis Rush), in U.S. Service May 13, 1813- 
June 18, 1813. 

Formerly Ensign 3d Regt. Penn. Militia Inf'y, in 
the War of the Revolution, February 4, 1 781-March 
5. 1781. 

Mr. David Banks, 

Commodore Atlantic Yacht Club. 

10 West 40th Street, Neiv York City. 

Son of David Banks (i 785-1871), an Original Mem- 
ber; Ensign ist Regt. Inf'y (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. 
Daniel Dodge), 3d Brigade, ist Division N. Y. 
Detached Militia, September 2, 1814-December 3, 
1814. 

Mr. David Banks, Jr. 

ist Lieut. 1 2th Regt. Inf'y N. G. N. Y. 

10 West 40th Street, New York City. 

Grandson of David Banks (i 785-1871), an Original 
Member; Ensign ist Regt. Inf'y (Lieut.-Col. 
Comdt. Daniel Dodge), 3d Brigade, ist Division 
N. Y. Detached Militia, September 2, 1814-De- 
cember 3, 1 81 4. 

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109 

Mr. Alfred Cutler Barnes, 

Bvt. Brig.-General N. G. N. Y. 

I ijf. Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Grandson of Timothy Burr (1770-1S32) ; Asst. 

Deputy Quartermaster-Genl. U. S. Army, with 

rank of Captain, July 31, 1813. Resigned January 

7, 1S14. 

Mr. George De Forest Barton, 

Late Paymaster United States Navy. 

loS East igt/i Street, iVe-i) York City. 

Grandson of Benjamin Barton (i 771-1842) ; Deputy 
Quartermaster-Genl. U. S. Army, with rank of 
Major, June 27, 1814-Jane 15, 18 15. 

Mr. Oliver Grant Barton, a.b., 

loS East igth Street, New York City. 
Grandson of Benjamin Barton (1771-1842) ; Deputy 
Quartermaster-Genl. U. S. Array, with rank of 
Major, June 27, 1814-June 15, 1815. 

Mr. Arthur Bedell Benjamin, 

Stratford, Conn. 
Grandson of Aaron Benjamin (i 756-1828) ; Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel 37th Regt. U. S. Inf'y, March it, 
1813-June 15, 1815. 

Formerly ist Lieut, and Adjutant ist Regt. 
Conn. Continental Lif 'y in the War of the Revolu- 
tion, and an Original Member of the Society of the 
Cincinnati. 

Mr. John Britton Caukhvell, c.e., 

Century Club, New York City. 
Grandson of Ebenezer Cauldwell (i 791-1875), an 
Original Member ; Private in Captain Barnet 
Andariese's Co. nth Regt. N. Y. Militia Art'y 
(Lieut. -Col. Comdt. Cornelius Harsen), Septem- 
ber 2, 1814-December 3, 1S14. 



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Mr. Robert Allen Center, 

Campania de Agendas, San Jose de Guatemala. 

Gratidson of Joab Center (1777-1S57) ; INIaster 
Comdt. U. S. Letter of Marque Ship " Catharine 
Augusta," 10 guns, in 181 2. Captured off Cher- 
bourg, and Prisoner of War at Dartmouth Prison 
in 1S13. 

Subsequently, on exchange, in 1814, Master 
Comdt. U. S. Letter of Marque " General Marion," 
16 guns. 

Mr. Henry Chauncey, Jr., 

Major Comd'g 8th Battl. Inf'y N. G. N. Y. 

267 Fifth Avenue, A^eiv York City. 
Grandson of Samuel S. Rowland (1789-1852) ; Private 

in Captain John B. Varick's Co. 2d Regt. N. Y. 

Militia Art'y (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. Horatio Gates 

Stevens), September 2, 1814-December 3, 1814. 
Great- Grandson of Joseph W. Alsop (i 772-1844) ; 

Master Comdt. U. S. Letter of ISIarque " Condor," 

7 guns, 1812-1814. 

Bvt. Lieutenant-Colonel William Conant Church, 
Late U. S. Volunteers. 

J/ Irving Place, N'ew York City. 

Grandson of John Conant (i 773-1856) ; ist Lieuten- 
ant in Captain Micajah Brown's Independent Co. 
Vermont Volunteer Inf'y from Brandon, Vt., for 
defence of Plattsburg, September 9, 1814-Sep- 
tember 18, 18 14. 

Mr. Thaddeus Kosciuszko Chutkowski, 

791? Hawthorne Street, Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Grandson of Alford Hanford (i 790-1828) ; Private in 
Captain Isaac Bennett's Co. 4th Regt. Conn. 
Militia Inf'y (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. Gresham Burr^, 
in defence of Fairfield, April 6, 1814-April 17, 
1814. 



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Mr. John Cropper, a.m., ll.b., 

1742 M Street, N. IV., Washington, D. C. 

Grandson of Elisha Mix (1794-1832) ; Master Comdt. 
U. S. Letter of Marque Schooner "Blockade," 10 
guns and 66 men. Captured, December 12, 18 12, 
by H. B. M. Sloop of War " Charybdis," 18 guns,' 
after a gallant action of one hour and twenty min- 
utes, and taken into St. Thomas, where he was a 
Prisoner of War until November, 1813. 

Mr. Maturin Livingston Delafield, Jr., 

Fieldston, Riverdale, iVew York City. 

Grandson of Joseph Delafield, a.b. (i 790-1875), an 
Original Member; Captain ist Regt. N. Y. De- 
tached Militia Inf'y (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. Beekman 
M. Van Beuren), September 15, 1812-December i, 
1812; Captain 2d Regt. Inf'y U. S. Volunteers, 
December i, 1812-February 15, 1814 ; Major 46th 
Regt. U. S. Inf'y, April 15, 18 14 -June 15, 18 15. 

Great- Grandson of Morgan Lewis, a.m. (i 754-1844) ; 
Quartermaster-Genl. U. S. A., with rank of Briga- 
dier-Genl., April 3, 1812-March 2, 1813; Major- 
General U. S. Army, March 2, 1813-June 15, 18 15. 
Formerly Continental Quartermaster-Genl. for 
Northern Department, with rank of Colonel, in the 
War of the Revolution, and an Original Member 
and, eventually, President-General of the Society 
of the Cincinnati. 

Mr. Joseph Livingston Delafield, 

473 F^fih Avenue, Neiv York City. 

Grandson of Joseph Delafield, a.b. ( 1 790-1875 ), an 6>;7- 
^/«^/ Member ; Captain ist Regt. N. Y. Detached 
Militia Inf'y (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. Beekman M. Van 
Beuren), September 15, 1812-December i, 1812; 
Captain 2d Regt. Inf'y U. S. Volunteers, Decem- 
ber I, 1812-February 15, 1814; Major 46th Regt. 
U. S. Inf'y, April 15, 1814-June 15, 1815. 



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Great- Grandson of Morgan Lewis, a.m. (i 754-1844) ; 
Quartermaster-Genl. U. S. A., with rank of Briga- 
dier-Genl., April 3, 1812-March 2, 1S13; Major- 
General U. S. Army, March 2, 1813-June 15, 1815. 
Formerly Continental Quartermaster-Genl. for 
Northern Department, with rank of Colonel, in the 
War of the Revolution, and an Original Member 
and, eventually, President-General of the Society 
of the Cincinnati. 

Rev. Morgan Dix, a.m., s.t.d., d.c.l., 

Rector of Trinity Parish. 

2j West 2^th Street, New York City. 

Son of John Adams Dix, a.m., ll.d. (1798-1879), 
an Original Member ; Cadet Art'y U. S. A., De- 
cember I, i8i2-May 10, 1813, but attached, for 
duty, to the 14th Regt. U. S. Inf'y ; Ensign 14th 
Regt. U. S. Inf'y, May 10, 1813-March 8, 18 14, and 
served in Major-General James Wilkinson's expe- 
dition, from Sackett's Harbor down the St. Law- 
rence to French Mills, October 17, 1813-Novembei 
13, 1 814, as Adjutant of an Independent Infy Battl. 
of nine detached companies under Lieut. -Colonel 
Timothy Upham, 21st Regt. U. S. Infy; 3d Lieut, 
and 2d Lieut. 21st Regt. U. S. Inf'y, March 8, 18 14 ; 
Transferred to U. S. Corps of Art'y, August, 18 14. 
Retained in Service at the Peace of 1815 ; Major- 
General U. S. Vols., May 16, 1861-November 30, 
1865. 

Grandson of Timothy Dix, Jr. (1770-1813); Major 
14th Regt. U. S. Inf'y, March 12, 1812; Lieut.- 
Colonel in same, June 20, 1813, and in Major-Gen- 
eral James Wilkinson's expedition. 

Died in Service, in cantonment at French Mills, 
N. Y., November 14, 1813. 

Mr. William Gayer Dominick, 

jf West ^-jth Street, Netv York City. 

Grandson of Elisha Wells (i 793-1872) ; Private in 

Captain Newhall Taintor's Co. of Lieut. -Col. 

Comdt. Ezra Brainard's Regt. Conn. Militia Inf'y, 

August 18, 1814-October 25, 1814. 



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Mr. Charles Albert Draper, 

Si)ig Sing, N. V. 
Grandson of John Childs (i 795-1870); Private in 
Captain Seth Hamlin's Co. ist Regt. Mass. Militia 
Inf'y (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. David Nye), in the 
defence of Falmouth, ]Mass., January 28, 1814- 
January 31, 18 14; October 3, 1814-October 10, 
1S14. 

Mr. John Louis Du Fais, a.b., 

/2S East 24th Street, New York City. 
Great- Grandson of Robert Sterry (i 783-1819); 2d 
Lieut. 6th Regt. U. S. Inf'y, May 3, 1808; ist 
Lieut. June 10, 1S09; Captain, January 3, 1812; 
Aide-de-Camp to Brig.-Genl. Joseph Bloomfield, 
U. S. A., 1813 ; Asst. Inspector-Genl. U. S. A., with 
rank of Major, May 10, 1813; Major 32d Regt. 
U. S. Infy, June 30, 1814-June 15, 1815. 

Mr. John Merrick Eastman, 

7J0 Broadway, Ne~v York City. 

Son of Ebenezer Eastman (1791-1868); Private in 
Captain William Marshall's Co. N. H: Detached 
Militia Lif'y, August 6, iSi4-November 16, 1S14. 

Mr. Ferdinand Pinney Earle, 
Late Chief of Artillery, S. N. Y. 

Jumel Place, N. IV. ibist Street, New York City. 

Grattdson of Benjamin Pinney (i 780-1860); Private 
in Captain Ezra Adams, Jr.'s Co. Conn. De- 
tached Militia Inf'y, August 3, 1813-September 
16, 1813. 

Hon. Smith Ely, 

47 West ^jth Street, New York City. 

Son of Epaphras Ely (i 795-1864) ; Private in Captain 

Benjamin Horton's Co. of Lieut.-Col. Comdt. 

Michael Smith's Regt. N. Y. Detached Militia 

Inf'y, September 7, 1814-December 12, 1814. 



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Mr. Loyall Farragut, u.s. mh. Acad., 

Late 2d Lieutenant 5 th Regt. U. S. Art'y. 

//J East ^bth Street, New York City. 
Son of David Glasgow Farragut (i 801-18 70) ; Mid- 
shipman, December 17, 1810, and made Prisoner 
of War on the capture of the U. S. Frigate " Essex," 
36 guns, in the gallant but unsuccessful action in 
Valparaiso Harbor, March 28, 18 14, with H. B. M. 
frigate " Phoebe," 36 guns, and sloop-of-war 
"Cherub," 28 guns. 

Retained in Service at the Peace of 181 5. Re- 
ceived the thanks of the U. S. Congress, July ir, 
1862, and December 21, 1864; Admiral of the 
U. S. Navy, July 25, 1866 and died in Service, 
August 14, 1S70. 

Mr. Morris Patterson Ferris, ll.b., 

488 Warburton Avenue., Yonkers, N. Y. 

Grandson of John Ferris (i 771-1824) ; Captain 2d 

Regt. N. Y. Militia Art'y, September 15, 1812- 

December 15, 181 2. Again in U. S. Service with 

same, September 2, 1814-December 3, 18 14. 

Mr. Frederic Gallatin, a.m., ll.b., 

byo Fifth Avenue., A^ew York City. 

Grandson of Horatio Gates Stevens (17 78-1873), an 
Original Member ; Lieutenant-Colonel Comdt. 2d 
Regt. N. Y. Militia Art'y, September 2, 1814- 
December 3, 1814. 

Great-Grandso7i of Ebenezer Stevens (1751-1823) ; 
Major-General Commanding ist Division N. Y. 
Detached Militia and Volunteers, September 2, 
1814-December 3, 1 8 14. 

Formerly of the Boston " Tea Party," December 
16, 1773 ; subsequently Lieut. -Col. 2d Regt. Contl. 
Corps of Art'y in the War of the Revolution, and 
an Original Member of the Society of the Cincin- 
nati. 



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Mr. Rolaz Horace Gallatin, 

bjo Fifth Avenue, A^ezv York City. 

Great- Grandson of Horatio Gates Stevens (1778-1S73), 
an Original Member ; Lieutenant-Colonel Comdt. 
2d Regt. N. Y. Militia Art'y, September 2, 18 14- 
December 3, 1814. 

Great- Great- Grandson of Ebenezer Stevens (1751- 
1823) ; Major-General Commanding ist Division 
N. Y. Detached Militia and Volunteers, September 
2, 1814-December 2, 1814. 

Formerly of the Boston " Tea Party," December 
16, 1773; subsequently Lieut.-Col. 2d Regt. Con- 
tinental Corps of Art'y in the War of the Revolu- 
tion, and an Original Member of the Society of 
the Cincinnati. 

Hon. Asa Bird Gardiner, a.m., ll.d., fA. ^. 
Judge-Advocate United States Army, retired. 
Secretary-General of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

Garden City, Long Island, N. Y. 

Grandson of John Bentley (i 787-1856), an Original 
Member ; Private in Captain Thomas Carson's Co. 
5th Regt. N.Y. Volunteer Inf'y (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. 
Cadwalader David Colden), September 8, 1814- 
December 8, 1814. 

Grandson of George Gardiner (1786-1826) ; Master 
Comdt. U. S. Letter of Marque Schooner " Spar- 
tan," 3 guns, April 10, 1813-October i, 1813. 

Mr. George Norman Gardiner, 

Bvt. 2d Lieut. N. G. N. Y. 

248 West End Avenue, New York City. 

Grandson of John Bentley (1787-1856), an Original 
Member ; Private in Captain Thomas Carson's Co. 
5th Regt. N. Y. Volunteer Inf'y (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. 
Cadwalader David Colden), September 8, 1814- 
December 8, 1814. 

Gra?idson of George Gardiner (i 786-1 826) ; Master 
Comdt. U. S. Letter of Marque Schooner " Spar- 
tan," 3 guns, April 10, iSi3-October i, 1813. 



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Mr. De Forest Grant, a.b., 

22 East 4gth Street, New York City. 

Grandson of Charles Grant (i 793-1862); Matross in 
Captain Jolin J. Plume's Co. of Major-Comdt. 
Isaac Andrus' Battl. N. J. Militia Art'y, August 
13, 1814-December 8, 1814. 

Great- Grandson of Aaron Nuttman (1782-1S22); 
Corporal in Captain Joseph Bruen's Co. of Lieut.- 
Col. Comdt. John Dodd's Regt. N. J. Militia Inf 'y, 
September i, 1814-December 7, 1814. 

Rev. Alexander Hamilton, Jr., b.d.. 

Rector of Emanuel Parish, Weston, 

Lyons Plains, Conn. 

Grandson of John Church Hamilton (1792-1882) ; 3d 

Lieutenant ist Regt. U. S. Inf'y, March 11, 1814, 

and Aide-de-Camp to Major-General William Henry 

Harrison, U. S. A. ; 2d Lieutenant same Regt., 

April 15, 1S14; Resigned June 11, 1814. 

Hon. William Dearing Harden, a.m., 

6j Gwinnett Street, Savannah, Ga. 

Grandson of Thomas Hutson Harden (i 786-1821); 
Aide-de-Camp, with rank of Major, to Major- 
General John Mcintosh, Ga. Militia, Commanding 
Division Ga. Volunteer Militia in U. S. Service at 
Mobile, Ala., November 21, 1814-December 26, 
1814; Inspector of same Division, with rank of 
Lieutenant-Colonel, December 26, 1814-March i, 
1815. 

Mr. Arthur Melvin Hatch, 

124 Keinsen Street, Brooklyn, N'. Y. 

Great- Grand-Nephew and Representative of Augustine 
Taylor, a.m. (1755-1816); Major-General Conn. 
Militia, Commanding Connecticut Coast Defences 
between New Haven and New London, August 16, 
1814-November 8, 1814, during blockade and of- 
fensive operations by the British Squadron. 

Formerly ist Lieutenant 2d Regt. Conn. Con- 
tinental Inf'y in the War of the Revolution. 



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Mr. Rufus Hatch, 

/J Wall Street, Neiu York City. 
Great-Grandso7i of Philo Pierson (i 781-1S20) ; First 
Sergeant in Captain Herman Camp's Troop of 
Lieut.-Col. Comdt. S. Boughton's Regt. N. Y. 
Detached Militia Cavalry, September 19, 181 2- 
October 31, 18 12, and December 20. 1813-March 

23, 1814. 
Great- Grand-Nephew and Representative of Daniel 
Buell (1787-1814); Captain iSth Regt. N. Y. 
Detached MiUtia Inf'y (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. Hugh 
W. Dobbin), June 27, 1812-September 27, 181 2, 
and September 30, 1812-November 6, 181 2; 
Captain 77th Regt. N. Y. Militia Inf'y (Lieut.-Col. 
Comdt. J. Crosby) in Brigadier-Genl. Peter Buell 
Porter's Brigade N. Y. and Penn. Volunteers and 
Militia, and killed in the gallant and successful 
Sortie from Fort Erie, Upper Canada, September 
17, 1814. 

Major John Van Rensselaer Hof¥, a.m., m.d., 
Surgeon United States Army. 

Governor's Island, New York City. 

Grandson of John Sanders Van Rensselaer ( 1 792-1868) , 
an Original Member ; Quartermaster 4th Brigade 
N. Y. Detached Militia, with rank of Captain, 
September 10, 1812-September 4, 1813. 

Mr. John Butterfield Holland, 

jj West 27th Street, A^etu York City. 

Grandson of Jonas Holland (i 784-1839) ; Captain 2d 
Regt. U. S. Light Dragoons, May i, 181 2; Re- 
signed May I, 1 8 14. 

Mr. John Hone, a.b., 

7 West 38th Street, New York City. 

Grandson of Matthew Calbraith Perry (i 794-1 858); 
Midshipman U- S. Navy, January 16, 1809; 
Ordered to U. S. Frigate "President," 53 guns, 



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October 12, iSio, and wounded in action with 
H. B. M. Frigate "Belvidere," 36 guns, June 23, 

1812 ; Acting Lieutenant U. S. Navy, February 22, 

1813 ; Lieutenant U. S. Navy, July 24, 1813. 
Retained in Service at the Peace of 1815 ; Flag 

Officer, with grade of Commodore, and Commander 
U. S. Squadron on African Coast ; then Commander 
Gulf Squadron in Mexican War and finally of 
Squadron in the Japan Expedition, 185 2-1854, and 
died in Service, March 4, 1858. 

Mr. Charles Carroll Hummel, 

2j Mercer Street, A'ew York City. 

Grandson of Joseph Hummel (i 793-1852); Sergeant 
in Captain Peter Snyder's Co. 2d Regt. Inf'y 
(Lieut. -Col. Comdt. Adam Ritscher), ist Brig. 
I St Division Penn. Detached Militia, September 2, 
1814-March 5, 1815. 

Rev. Frank Landoii Humphreys, a.m., s.t.d.,Mus. Doc, 
General Secretary Church University Board of Regents. 

Morristo'cvn, iV. J. 

Gnind-Nepheia and Representative of Julius Humphreys 
( 1 787-1815) ; Midshipman U. S. Navy, January 
16, 1809, and died in Service at Sea, off Cape Hat- 
teras, January 5, 1815. 

Mr. Charles Isham, a.b., 

/J East 66th Street, AVtw York City. 

Grayid-Nephew and Representative of Silas D. Wickes, 
M.D. (1792-1819); Surgeon's Mate U. S. Navy, 
July 24, 1813 ; Served on the U. S. Frigate "Presi- 
dent," 53 guns, in the gallant but unsuccessful 
action with H. B. M. Squadron "Majestic" 56 
guns, "Endymion" 50, "Pomone" 38, "Tenedos" 
38, and "Despatch" 22, and made Prisoner of 
War, January 15, 1815. Retained in Service at 
the Peace of 18 15 ; Surgeon U. S. Navy, March 27, 
1818, and died in Service, August 21, 1819. 



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Mr. John Lawrence, 

33 West lytk Street, A^ew York City. 

Grafidson of Richard Penfield Lawrence (1778-1S31) ; 

2d Lieutenant 9th Regt. N. Y. Militia Art'y (Lieut. - 

Col. Comdt. Simon Fleet), September 15, 181 2- 

December 15, 181 2. 

Captain Carter Nelson Berkeley Macauley, m.d., 
Assistant Surgeon United States Army. 

Fort Apache, Arizona Territory. 

Grandson of Daniel Smith Macauley (1799-185 2); 
Midshipman U. S. Navy, February i, 18 14. Re- 
tained in Service at the Peace of 18 15. 

Mr. Isaac Walker Maclay, u.s. Mil. Acad., 

Yonkers., N. Y. 

6^ra//^j-^« of Isaac Walker ( 1 786-1 868), of the "Associa- 
tion of Defenders of Baltimore in 1814"; Private 
in Captain Thomas Watson's Co. 39th Regt. Md. 
Militia Infy (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. Benjamin Fow- 
ler), August 19, 1814-November II, 1 8 14, and at 
Battle of North Point, September 12, 1814, in 3d 
Brigade Md. Militia (Brig.-Genl. John Strieker). 

Mr. James Betts Metcalf, a.m., ll.b., 

59 East j6th Street, New York City. 

Grandson of Samuel Rossiter Betts, a.m., ll.d. (1786- 
1868), an Original Member; Judge-Advocate 2d 
Division N. Y. Detached Militia, September 22, 
1814-March I, 1815. 

U. S. District Judge, Southern District of N. Y., 
1823-1867. 

Mr. James Mortimer Montgomery, 

Grimes Hill, Staten Island, N. Y. 

Grandson of James Montgomery (i 780-1851), an 

Original Member; Private in Captain Tunis B. 

Van Brunt's Co. of Major Comdt. John W. Forbes' 



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Battl. Art'y, ist Brig. Art'y, ist Division N. Y. State 
Militia, September 2, 1814-December 3, 1814. 
Great- Grandson of Richard Montgomery Malcolm 
(1776-1S27); Captain 13th Regt. U. S. Infy, 
April 8, 181 2 ; Major, March 3, 1813 ; Lieutenant- 
Colonel of same, June 30, 1814-June 15, 181 5. 

Wounded in assault on Queenstown Heights, 
October 13, 18 12. 

Mr. Mandeville Mower, a.m., 

byj Lexington Avenue, New York City. 
Son of Thomas Gardner Mower, m.d. (i 790-1853) ; 
Surgeon's Mate 9th Regt. U. S. Infy, December 2, 
1812; Surgeon of same, June 30, 1S14. 
Retained in Service at the Peace of 18 15. 

Mr. George Lawrence Myers, a.b., 

21 JVest 4^th Street., A^ezu York City. 

Great-Grandson of Bernard Hart (i 764-1 855), an 
6>;7^//z^/ Member ; Division Quartermaster ist Di- 
vision N. Y. Detached Militia, with rank of Major, 
September 2, 1814-Deceraber 2, 1814. 

ist Lieutenant Maury Nichols, c.e., u.s. mil Acad., 
7th Regiment United States Infantry. 

Fort Logan, Colorado. 

Great- Grand-Nephetv and Representative of Abraham 
Maury, Jr. (i 793-1819) ; 3d Lieutenant 4th Regt. 
U. S. Rifles, April 2, 1814; Resigned, April 13, 1815. 

Mr. George Livingston Nichols, a.m., ll.b., 

3JI JVest Sgth Street, New York City. 
Grandson of Lewis Nichols (i 790-1859) ; Private in 
Captain Davis' Co. of Major Comdt. J. Hutchin- 
son's Battl. N. Y. Militia Infy, December 21, 1813- 
January 17, 18 14. 

Again in U. S. Service as Private in Captain 
George W. Barker's Co. 42d Regt. U. S. Infy (Col. 
William N. Irvine), February 8, 1814-January i, 
1815. 



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Mr. George Washington Olney, ll.b., 

220 East 124th Street, New York City. 

Grandson of Luther Bartlett (i 783-1 851) ; Private in 
the North Adams Co. of Lieut. -Col. Comdt. Peter 
Osgood's Regt. Mass. MiUtia Inf'y, July i, 1814- 
July 30, 1 814. 

Grandson of Captain Stephen Olney (i 756-1832) ; 
Senior Class Co. of North Providence, R. L, Militia 
Inf'y, September 14, 1814-September 20, 1814. 

Formerly Captain 2d Regt. R. I. Continental 
Inf'y in the War of the Revolution, and led the 
American storming column in the gallant and 
successful assault on the British redoubt at York- 
town, October 14, 1781, in which he received 
severe bayonet wounds. An Original Member of 
the Society of the Cincinnati. 

Mr. Albert Ross Parsons, 

President American College of Musicians. 

Garden City, Long Island, N. Y. 

Grandson of Samuel Averill (i 777-1863); Corporal in 
Captain Kames Gray's Co., ist Regt. Vermont 
Militia Inf'y, April 12, 1814-April 20, 1814. 

ist Lieutenant Robert Harman Patterson, 

ist Regt. United States Artillery. 

Fort IVadsworth, New York Harbor. 

Grandson of Daniel Todd Patterson (i 785-1 839) ; 
Midshipman U. S. Navy, August 20, 1800, and 
made Prisoner by the Tripolitans on capture of the 
U. S. Frigate "Philadelphia," 38 guns, during the 
offensive operations against the Bey of Tripoli, Oc- 
tober 31, 1801 ; Lieut. U.S. Navy, January 24, I So 7 ; 
Master Commandant, July 24, 1813, and com- 
manded U. S. Naval Forces at New Orleans, Oc- 
tober 13, 1813-1815, and in co-operation with 
Major-General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of 
New Orleans and in defence of that station ; Cap- 
tain U. S. Navy, February 28, 181 5. 



122 

Received the thanks of the U. S. Congress, Feb- 
ruary 22, 1815, and of the Legislature of the State 
of New York, April 14, 1S15. 

Retained in Service at the Peace of 1815. Flag 
Officer, with grade of Commodore, and Com- 
mander of the Mediterranean Squadron, 1832- 
1835, and died in Service, August 15, 1839. 

Mr. Rowland Pell, 

4^S lifadison Avenue, New York City. 

Grandson of Benjamin Ferris (i 771-1832) ; Sergeant 

in Captain B. Van Benthuisen's Co. of Lieut. -Col. 

Comdt. David Rogers' Regt. N. Y. MiHtia Inf'y, 

September 8, 1814-November 26, 1814. 

Mr. Edmund Pendleton, 

Late I St Lieut. 4th Regt. N. Y. Vol. Heavy Art'y 

and A. D. C. 

Union Club, New York City. 

Son of Nathaniel Greene Pendleton, a.b. (i 793-1 861) ; 
3d Lieutenant U. S. Corps of Art'y, November 22, 
1814 ; Aide- de-Camp to Brig, and Bvt. Major- 
General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, U.S.A. 
Retained in Service at the Peace of 181 5. 

Right Rev'd William Stevens Perry, d.d. (oxon.), 

LL.D., D.C.L., 

Bishop of Iowa. 

General Chaplain of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

Davenport, lozva. 

Grandson oi y^l'Xxd.va. Stevens (i 779-1816); ist Lieu- 
tenant 34th Regt. U. S. Inf'y, April 30, 1813-IMay 
31, 1814. 

Mr. Murray Edward Poole, a.b., ithaca,N. y. 

Grandson of Daniel Poole (i 797-1864); Private in 

Captain Benjamin King's Co. Detached Mass. 

Militia Inf'y, from Abington, August 14, 1814- 

October 31, 18 14. 



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Mr. Nathaniel Appleton Prentiss, Jr., a.m.. 
Commissioner of Education. 

131 East 2bth Street, New York City. 

Son of Nathaniel Appleton Prentiss (i 787-1852) ; 
Acting Midshipman U. S. Navy, June 18, 181 2 j 
Midshipman March 24, 18 13. Served on the U. S. 
Corvette, "John Adams," 24 guns, and in its gal- 
lant but unsuccessful defence in the fight at Hamp- 
den, Penobscot River, Me., September 3, 1814. 

Retained in Service at the Peace of 1815. 

Lieut.-Colonel Ralph Earl Prime, 

Late 6th Regt. N. Y. Vol. Heavy Art'y. 

2j IVarhnrton Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. 

Grandson of Benjamin Higbie (i 785-1818) ; Captain 
9th Regt. Inf'y (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. Peter I. Vos- 
burgh), 3d Brigade ist Division N. Y. Detached 
Militia Inf'y, September 18, 1812-December 12, 
1812. 

Again in U. S. Service, as Captain 5th Regt. N. Y. 
Volunteer Inf'y (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. Cadwalader 
David Colden), September 5, 1814-October 22, 
1814. 

Mr. Thomas Jackson Oakley Rhinelander, a.b., 

LL.B., 

18 West 48th Street, New York City. 

Grandson of William C. Rhinelander (1791-1878); 
Quartermaster-Sergeant 2d Regt. N. Y. Militia 
Art'y (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. Horatio Gates Stevens), 
September 2, 1814-December 3, 1814. 

Mr. Charles Augustus Schermerhorn, 

270 Boulevard, A'eiu York City. 

Great- Grandson of Ebenezer Stevens (i 751-1823); 
Major-General Commanding ist Division N. Y. 
Detached Militia and Volunteers, September 2, 
1814-December 2, 18 14. 



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Formerly of the Boston " Tea Party," December 
1 6, 1773; Lieut.-Col. 2d Regt. Continental Corps 
of Art'y in the War of the Revolution, and an 
Original Member of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

Mr. Edward Gilbert Schermerhorn, 

J 4 West 68th Street, New York City. 

Great-Great- Grandson of Ebenezer Stevens (1751- 
1823) ; Major-General Commanding ist Division 
N. Y. Detached Militia and Volunteers, September 
2, 1814-December 2, 1 8 14. 

Formerly of the Boston " Tea Party," December 
16, 1773; Lieut.-Col. 2d Regt. Continental Corps 
of Art'y in the War of the Revolution, and an 
Original Member of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

Mr. George Richard Schieffelin, a.m., 

8 East 4jth Street, iVeiv York City. 

Grandson of George Knox McKay (1791-1814) ; 
Captain 47th Regt. U. S. Inf'y (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. 
Alexander Denniston), January 9, 1813, and died in 
Service, February 12, 18 14. 

Mr. George Gregory Shelton, m.d., 

^21 Madison Avenue, New York City. 
Great- Grandson of Zacheus Atwood (i 776-1 849) ; ist 
Lieutenant in Captain Robert /Archibald's Indepen- 
dent Co. of N. Y. Militia Art'y, attached to the 
50th Regt. N. Y. Mihtia Inf'y, September 8, 1814- 
September 22, 1814. 

Mr. William Atwood Shelton, 

24g West i2gth Street, A^ew York City. 
Great- Grandson of Zacheus Atwood (1776-1849) ; ist 
Lieutenant in Captain Robert Archibald's Indepen- 
dent Co. of N. Y. Militia Art'y, attached to the 
50th Regt. N. Y. Militia Inf'y, September 8, 18 14- 
September 22, 1814. 



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Mr. Frederick Trowbridge Sibley, 

80 Griszoold Street, Detroit, Mich. 
Grandson of Solomon Sibley, a.b. (i 769-1846); 
Captain Michigan Territory Regt. Militia Infy, 
July 16, 1812-February 18, 1815 ; made Prisoner 
of War, on parole, at Capitulation of Detroit, 
August 16, 181 2. 

Mr. Gouverneur Mather Smith, a.m., m.d., 

Late Acting Assistant Surgeon United States Army. 

14 East lyth Street, A^eiu York City. 

Son of Joseph Mather Smith, m.d. (i 789-1 866) ; 
Surgeon's Mate Detachment ist Regt. N. Y. Militia 
Horse Art'y, September 2, 1814-December 2, 
1814. 

Mr. Lewis Bayard Smith, 

10 IVest joth Street, New York City. 

Son of Joseph Mather Smith, ]\i.d. (i 789-1 866) ; 

Surgeon's Mate Detachment ist Regt. N. Y. Militia 

Horse Art'y, September 2, 1814-December 2, 1814. 

Mr. Lorillard Spencer, 

7 East ibth Street, New York City. 
Grandson of William Augustus Spencer (i 793-1854), 
an Original Member ; Midshipman U. S. Navy, No- 
vember 15, 1809 ; Acting Lieutenant, and wounded 
in the Battle of Lake Champlain, September 11, 
1814; Lieutenant, December 9, 1814. 
Retained in Service at the Peace of 1815. 

Mr. Joseph Grafton Story, 

Assistant Chief of Ordnance, N. G. N. Y. 

21 Herkimer Street, Brooklyn, N. V. 

Grandson of Reuben Munson (i 770-1846) ; Captain 
ist Regt. N. Y. Rifles (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. Francis 
McClure), October 23, 1813-January 23, 1814. 



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Mr. Henry Grafton Story, 

21 Herkimer Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Great- Grandson of Reuben Munson (i 770-1846); 

Captain ist Regt. N. Y. Rifles (Lieut. -Col. Comdt. 

Francis McClure), October 23, 1813-January 23, 

1814. / 

Mr. Washington Irving Taylor, 
Captain 13th Regt. N. G. N. Y. 

J Eighth Avemie, 'Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Grandson of Robert Cobb (i 789-1 851) ; Private in 
Captain John Howe's Co. of Lieut. -Col. Comdt. 
^Ll^tin Nichols' Regt. Mass. Militia Inf'y, Sep- 
tember 7, 1814-September 19, 1814. 

Mr. Paul Gibert Thebaud, 

White Plains, N. Y. 

Great- Great- Grandson of Ebenezer Stevens (1751- 

1823) ; Major-General Commanding ist Division 

N. Y. Detached Militia and Volunteers, September 

2, 1814-December 2, 1814. 

Formerly of the Boston " Tea Party," December 
16, 1773; Lieut. -Col. 2d Regt. Continental Corps 
of Art'y in the War of the Revolution, and an 
Original Member of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

Mr. James Bliss Townsend, a.m., 

2by Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
Grandson of Walter Wilmot Townsend (i 794-1 860) ; 
Private in Captain William T. McCoun's Co. ist 
Regt. Lif'y (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. Daniel Dodge), 
3d Brigade, ist Division N. Y. Detached Militia, 
September 29, 1814-December i, 18 14. 

Mr. James Hill Townsend, 

Sing Sing, A^. Y. 
Grandson of Artemus Mead (i 776-1832), an Original 
Member ; Private in Captain Solomon Seixas Co. 



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2d Regt. Inf y (Lieut. -Col. Comdt. Isaac A. Van 
Hook), 3d Brigade, ist Division N. Y. Detached 
Militia, September 2, 1814-December 2, 1814. 

Mr. Rufus Martin Townsend, 

1st and Congress Streets, Troy, JV. Y. 

Great- Grandso7i of George Boyd (1781-1832) ; Private 
in Captain D. Bryan's Co. of Lieut. -Col. Comdt. 
W. Runchbet's Regt. N. Y. Militia Inf 'y, Septem- 
ber I, 1814-December I, 1 8 14, and wounded in 
Batde of Plattsburg. 

Mr. Edgar Underhill, 

170 JVest ybth Street, Ne-w York City. 

Grandson of Gilbert Underhill (i 782-1825) ; 2d Lieu- 
tenant in Captain Peter Underbill's Co. ist Regt. 
N. Y. Militia Cavalry (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. James 
Warner), September 7, 1814-December 6, 1814. 

Grandson of Bishop Underhill (i 781-1825) ; Captain 
1 2th Regt. N. Y. Militia Inf'y (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. 
Jonathan Varian), August 18, 1814-October 31, 
1814. 

Mr. Frederic Edgar Underhill, a.b., 

9^ Chambers Street, New York City. 

Grandson of Gilbert Underhill (i 782-1825) ; 2d Lieu- 
tenant in Captain Peter Underbill's Co. ist Regt. 
N. Y. Militia Cavalry (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. James 
Warner), September 7, 1814-December 6, 18 14. 

Grandson of Bishop Underhill (i 781-1825) ; Captain 
1 2th Regt. N. Y. Militia Inf'y (Lieut.-Col. Comdt. 
Jonathan Varian), August 18, 1814-October 31, 
1814. 

Mr. Abraham Van Wyck Van Vechten, a.m., 

577 Fifth Avetiue, New York City. 

Grandson oi Ahr^i\\^imV^.nyVyck (i 774-1864) ; Lieut. - 
Colonel Comdt. 6th Regt. Inf'y, 2d Brigade N. Y. 
Detached Mihtia, August iS, 1814-September 2, 
1814. 



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Hon. James M. Varnum, a.m., ll.b., 

Paymaster- General S. N. Y. 

J/ Nassau Street, New York City. 

Grandson of James M. Varnum (i 786-1821) ; Captain 
2d Regt. District of Columbia Militia Inf'y (Colo- 
nel William Brent), July 19, 1813-July 26, 1813. 

Again in U. S. Service with same, August 19, 
1814-October 8, 1814, and at Battle of Bladens- 
burg, August 24, 1S14, in ist Brigade D. C. Militia 
(Brig.-Genl. Walter Smith). 

Mr. Isaac Henry Walker, 

loS Westybth Street, New York City. 
Grandson of Isaac Walker (i 786-1868), of the Associ- 
ation of Defenders of Baltimore in 1814; Private 
in Captain Thomas Watson's Co. 39th Regt. Md. 
Militia Inf'y (Lieut. -Col. Comdt. Benjamin Fow- 
ler), August 19, 1814-November II, 1 8 14, and at 
Battle of North Point, September 12, 1814, in 3d 
Brigade Md. Militia (Brig.-Genl. John Strieker). 

Mr. John Sydney Webb, a.b., ll.b., 

jSoo F Street, Washington, D. C. 
Grandsofi of Henry Knapp Randall (i 793-1877) ; 
Midshipman U. S. Navy, June 18, 18 12, and at 
Battle of Bladensburg in Commodore Joshua Bar- 
ney's Naval Detachment, August 24, 18 14; Re- 
signed, February 10, 1815. 

Mr. Albert Theodore Weston, m.d., 

226 Central Park, West, A'ew York City. 
Grandson of Zacheus Atwood (i 776-1849) ; ist Lieu- 
tenant in Captain Robert Archibald's Independent 
Co. of N. Y. Militia Art'y, attached to the 50th Regt. 
N. Y. Militia Inf'y, September 8, 1814-September 
22, 1S14. 

ist Lieutenant Garland Nelson Whistler, 
5th Regiment United States Artillery. 

62/ Temple Court, Beekman Street, N'eio York City. 

Grandson of Nathaniel Nye Hall (i 789-1850) ; Ensign 



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2ist Regt. U. S. Inf'y, March 12, 1812; 2d Lieu- 
tenant, March 13, 1813 ; ist Lieutenant, March 7, 
1S14; Captain in same, September 30, 1814; 
Assistant Inspector-Genl. U. S. A., with rank of 
Major, x\pril 25, 1S14; Bvt. Captain U. S. A. for 
"gallant conduct in defence of Fort Erie," August 

Retained in Service at the Peace of 1815, and 
transferred to the Corps of Artillery. 
Grandson of William Whistler (i 782-1863) ; 2d Lieu- 
tenant I St Regt. U. S. Inf'y, June 8, 1801 ; ist 
Lieutenant, March 4, 1807 ; Distinguished in Batde 
of Maguago, August 9, 1S12; Captain ist Regt. 
U. S. Inf'y, December 31, 18 12. 

Retained in Service at the Peace of 1815; 
Colonel 4th Regt. U.S. Inf'y, July 15, 1845, ^'^^ 
died in Service, December 4, 1863. 
Great- Grajidson of John Whistler (1753-182 7) ; 
Adjutant of Major Henry Gaither's Md. Battl. in 
Lieut.-Col. Comdt. William Darke's Regt. U. S. 
Levies, and wounded in Major-General Arthur St. 
Clair's defeat by Miami Indians, November 4, 
1 791; Ensign ist Regt. U. S. Inf'y, April 11, 
1792 ; Lieutenant ist U. S. Sub-Legion, November 
27, 1792; Rearranged into ist Regt. U.S. Inf'y, 
November, 1796; Captain in same, July i, 1797- 
June 15, 1815 ; Brevet-Major U. S. A., July 10, 
1812; Military Storekeeper U. S. A., March 5, 
181 7, and died in Service in 1827. 

Mr. George Sandford Wylie, 

Morristown, N. y. 

Grandson of John McNeill (1790-1818) ; Private in 

Captain Joseph A. Bishop's Co. of Lieut.-Col. 

Comdt. Elihu Sanford's Regt. Conn. Militia Inf'y, 

June II, 1813-June 13, 1813. 

Again in U. S. Service with same, as Corporal, 
September 8, 1814-October 21, 1814. 



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IN MEMORIAM. 

Original Member. 



?^enr2 Bruce, 

Commodore United States Navy, retired. 

Born in Machias, Me., February 12, 1796. 

Died in Somerville, Mass., February 9, 1895. 
Appointed Midshipman U. S. N. November 9, 1813, and 
ordered to U. S. Sloop of War "Frolic," 18 guns 
(Master Comdt. J. Bainbridge), on December 31, 
1813. 

Sailed from Boston Harbor, February 18, 18 14, 
and captured Brig " Little Fox " in North Atlantic, 
March 17, 1814. 

Fired on a Carthaginian Privateer Schooner, 9 
guns and 70 men, on April 3, 18 14, in West Indies, 
upon refusal to heave to, which was afterward re- 
ported to have been sunk. 

Made prisoner of war April 20, 18 14, off Havana, 
and carried into Bermuda, on capture of the 
"Frolic " by H. B. M. Frigate " Orpheus," 36 guns, 
and Schooner "Shelburne," 12 guns, after a chase 
of 13 hours, during which the "Frolic" threw 
overboard all her guns and anchors ; was a pris- 
oner of war for six months. 

Retained in Service at the Peace of 181 5. 

Ordered to Philadelphia for duty on board the 
Ship of the Line "Franklin," June 23, 1817, and 
on March 28, 1820, was ordered to duty on the 
" Independence," 74 guns. 

In 1 82 1 he was on duty in Boston, and in the 
following year at New York. 



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He was promoted to Lieutenant U. S. N., Jan- 
uary 13, 1S25, and served successively, after shore 
duty or leave of absence, on the "Hornet," "Bran- 
dyvvine," and " Macedonian." 

Promoted to Commander U. S. N., September 
8, 1841, he was, on August 18, 1843, ordered to 
command the "Dolphin," and, on January 31, 
1844, detached and ordered to command the 
"Truxton" on the African coast, during which 
cruise he captured the Slaveship, " Spitfire." 

On November 24, 1845, ^''^ vvas detached and 
granted leave and, on January 15, 1848, assigned 
to the command of the Naval Rendezvous in Bos- 
ton, Mass. 

On February i, 1850, he was detached and 
placed on "waiting orders," and on February 21, 
1853, was granted leave for one year to visit Europe. 

He was placed on the Reserved List, September 
i3> iS55) and on April 4, 1867, was commissioned 
a Commodore U. 8. N., on the Retired List. 

During his long career in the navy until he be- 
came the last naval veteran of the War of 181 2, his 
total actual sea service was upwards of fifteen 
years, and shore or other duty, a little over eight 
years. 



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